Perinatal features of Prader-Willi syndrome: a Chinese cohort of 134 patients.,Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases

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Perinatal features of Prader-Willi syndrome: a Chinese cohort of 134 patients.
Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases ( IF 3.4 ) Pub Date : 2020-01-21 , DOI: 10.1186/s13023-020-1306-z
Lili Yang ₁ , Qiong Zhou ₂ , Bo Ma ₃ , Shujiong Mao ₄ , Yanli Dai ₅ , Mingqiang Zhu ₅ , Chaochun Zou ₅

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BACKGROUND Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS) is a rare and complex genetic disorder caused by lacking expression of imprinted genes on the paternally derived chromosome 15q11-q13 region. This study aimed to characterize the perinatal features of 134 Chinese individuals with PWS. METHODS This study included the patients of a PWS registry in China. Anonymous data of 134 patients were abstracted. Perinatal and neonatal presentations were analyzed, and compared between the two PWS genetic subtypes. We also compared the perinatal features of PWS patients with the general population and other previous reported large cohorts from France, UK and USA. RESULTS This study included 134 patients with PWS (115 patients with 15q11-q13 deletion and 19 with maternal uniparental disomy). Higher mean maternal age was found in this cohort (30.5 vs. 26.7), particularly in the maternal uniparental disomy (UPD) group (36.0 vs. 26.7) comparing with the general population. 88.6% of mothers reported a decrease of fetal movements. 42.5 and 18.7% of mothers had polyhydramnios and oligohydramnios during pregnancy, respectively. 82.8% of the patients were born by caesarean section. 32.1% of neonates had birth asphyxia, 98.5% had hypotonia and 97.8% had weak cry or even no cry at neonatal period. Feeding difficulty existed in 99.3% of the infants, 94.8% of whom had failure to thrive. 69.4% of the infants ever used feeding tube during hospitalization, however, 97.8% of them discontinued tube feeding after discharge. Maternal age and pre-pregnancy weight were significantly higher in the UPD group (both P < 0.05). CONCLUSIONS Differential diagnosis of PWS should be highlighted if infants having following perinatal factors including polyhydramnios, decreased intrauterine fetal movements, caesarean section, low birth weight, feeding difficulty, hypotonia and failure to thrive. Higher maternal age may be a risk factor of PWS, especially for UPD. Further studies are needed for elucidating the mechanism of PWS.

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