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Caregivers Report on the Pathway to a Formal Diagnosis of Angelman Syndrome: A Comparison Across Genetic Etiologies within the Global Angelman Syndrome Registry

Angelman syndrome (AS) and is typically diagnosed in children under the age of three based upon early behavioural concerns identified by parents, or genetic links with other family members. For some families however, the pathway to diagnosis is not so clear, particularly when children demonstrate differential characteristics, commonly seen for those with UBE3A pathogenic variants (ubiquitin protein ligase EA3), imprinting defects or uniparental disomy (patUPD) etiology. The aim of this paper is to explore parent’s experiences of the pathway to diagnosis involving 394 children with formal diagnoses of AS.

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