TY - JOUR T1 - Prader-Willi syndrome: development and manifestations JF - Archives of Disease in Childhood JO - Arch Dis Child SP - 769 LP - 769 DO - 10.1136/adc.2004.060913 VL - 90 IS - 7 AU - M Donaldson Y1 - 2005/07/01 UR - http://adc.bmj.com/content/90/7/769.1.abstract N2 - Edited by Joyce Whittington and Tony Holland. Cambridge University Press, 2004, pp 213, £60.00 (hardback). ISBN 0-521-84029-5 In their preface to this roughly 200 page book, which chronicles the Cambridge Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS) study, the authors Tony Holland (Chair in Learning Disabilities) and Joyce Whittington (Senior Research Assistant) describe their study as “a process of discovery that included getting to know many people with Prader-Willi syndrome and their families”. Following a thorough and painstaking process of identification and ascertainment, the authors managed to identify 96 patients within the Anglia and Oxford Health regions in whom the diagnosis of PWS was … ER -