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…
The Guardian reports: 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 about Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS), a rare genetic condition named after Andrea Prader and Heinrich Willi, two of the three Swiss paediatricians who discovered it in 1956.
This science story centres on the United Kingdom. Names and organisations mentioned in the coverage include Jean Phillips-Martinsson, Prader-Willi and British.
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- Jean Phillips-Martinsson, Prader-Willi, British, Sweden
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- 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… (The Guardian)
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