Williams Syndrome, a rare genetic disorder

Super-social gene may hold clues to autism, other disorders

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The 7-year-old twins from San Diego, Calif., have Williams Syndrome, a rare genetic disorder that makes them unusually social, so outgoing and gregarious that, to them, there's no such thing as a stranger. ...

Williams Syndrome Provides Key Link Between Genes and Behavior

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At the core of the grant and the research it is funding is a neurodevelopmental disorder called Williams syndrome. Williams syndrome affects facial physicality (characterized by an elfin appearance) and results in cardiovascular problems, ...

Salk Lab gets big grant to study Williams Syndrome

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Understanding the “friendliness” syndrome, as Williams Syndrome might also be termed, is going to get a big boost through a $5.5 million grant from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. The research might also help scientists ...