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. 2019 Mar 22;20(6):1459. doi: 10.3390/ijms20061459

Table 4.

Differences in clinical features in the proband by parental origin and gender of the 15q11.2 BP1-BP2 microdeletion.

Parent-of-Origin Differences Gender Differences
Clinical Feature Full Cohort
(N = 71)
No Siblings
(N = 55)
No Siblings and/or VOUS
(N = 44)
Full Cohort
(N = 71)
No Siblings
(N = 55)
No Siblings and/or VOUS
(N = 44)
% Mat % Pat % Mat % Pat % Mat % Pat % F % M % F % M % F % M
Grouped Clinical Features Any Behavior 62 41 59 42 50 45 31 64 ** 36 61 32 60
Any Delays 65 68 62 77 54 75 48 79 ** 55 79 47 76 *
Any Non-physical 97 92 97 92 96 95 90 98 91 97 89 100
Any Physical 56 65 59 73 54 65 55 64 59 70 53 64
Specific Clinical Features ASD 29 8 * 24 8 21 5 17 19 18 15 11 16
CHD 0 22 *** 0 19 ** 0 10 17 7 14 6 11 0
DD 41 32 41 38 38 40 24 45 32 45 26 48
Difficult Behaviors 47 27 45 27 38 25 24 45 27 42 21 40
Epilepsy 29 19 34 12 * 42 10 ** 38 14 * 32 18 32 24
Facial Dysmorphisms 47 38 48 46 42 45 38 45 45 48 42 44
ID 44 27 45 31 46 35 28 40 32 42 32 48
LD 38 22 38 19 38 20 17 38 23 33 16 40
Macrocephaly 15 0 * 17 0* 13 0 7 7 9 9 5 8
Microcephaly 15 24 10 27 13 25 17 21 18 18 16 20
Motor Delay 53 46 48 54 50 55 28 64 *** 32 64 * 32 68 *
Muscular Diagnosis 24 38 24 50 * 17 55 ** 28 33 36 36 32 36
Psychiatric Diagnosis 32 27 31 23 29 30 17 38 23 30 26 32
Short Stature 9 19 10 19 13 20 10 17 14 15 16 16
Speech Delay 56 43 52 54 46 50 38 57 41 61 32 60

Mat: maternal; Pat: paternal; F: female; M; male; Any Behavior: Any behavioral symptoms; Any Delays: speech, motor, or general developmental delays; Any Non-physical: Any non-physical feature noted; Any Physical: Any physical feature noted; ASD: autism spectrum disorder; CHD: congenital heart disease; DD: Developmental delays; ID: Intellectual disability; LD: Learning disorder/difficulties; Muscular Diagnosis: muscle-related phenotypes; Psychiatric Diagnosis: Psychiatric condition diagnosis. VOUS: variant of unknown significance by genetic testing (e.g., microarray analysis). chi-squared test; p-values (significance p < 0.05); * p ≤ 0.05, ** p ≤ 0.01, *** p ≤ 0.005.