Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS), with a prevalence of 60:1.000.000, results from the loss of paternal chromosome 15, being 56% due to deletion, 24% due to uniparental maternal disomy, and 18% from methylation, an epigenetic phenomenon. The clinical picture begins with extreme muscular hypotonia, which makes it difficult to feed the child in the first year. As the hypotonia improves, usually in the first two years, around the 4th year of life, an insatiable appetite leads these children to an extreme obesity, […]