The changes that cause Prader-Willi syndrome occur on the pair known as chromosome 15. The 23rd chromosome pair is designated as the sex chromosome pair This pair determines the babyâs sex: XX for a girl, XY for a boy.
(In the metric system, a milligram is a unit of weight equal to one-thousandth of a gram, and a deciliter is a unit of volume equal to one-tenth of a liter.) Muscular young or middle-aged adults may have more creatinine in their blood than the norm for the general population.
Medical Definition of mg. mg: Abbreviation for milligram, a unit of measurement of mass in the metric system equal to a thousandth of a gram. A gram is equal to the mass of one milliliter, one thousandth of a liter, of water at 4 degrees C. MG (in capital letters) is the abbreviation for the disease myasthenia gravis.