Abstract
ANGELMAN, or Happy Puppet syndrome, comprises mental retardation, microbrachycephaly and characteristic stiff, jerky, ataxic, puppet-like movements, a happy disposition and episodes of spontaneous laughter. The condition is the consequence of a defect in the long arm of chromosome 15.
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Beighton, P., Beighton, G. (1997). ANGELMAN, Harry. In: The Person Behind the Syndrome. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-0925-9_6
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