Jean Phillips-Martinsson obituary
Founder of an international organisation to encourage research into the rare genetic disorder Prader-Willi syndrome In 1984 Jean Phillips-Martinsson, a British woman living in Sweden, came across an article in the Lance…
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Founder of an international organisation to encourage research into the rare genetic disorder Prader-Willi syndrome In 1984 Jean Phillips-Martinsson, a British woman living in Sweden, came across an article in the Lancet.
It was a lightbulb moment for Phillips-Martinsson, who had been in limbo for 14 years, wanting to know why her son, Anders, born in 1970, was floppy and unable to suck as a baby, and later had behavioural problems and was constantly hungry (hyperphagia).
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