New research on the genetics of Prader-Willi and Angelman syndromes could help in developing personalised therapies for associated mental illness and autism features. Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS) and ...

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 109, No. 19 (May 8, 2012), pp. 7403-7408 (6 pages) The Prader-Willi syndrome/Angelman syndrome (PWS/AS) imprinted ...

image: A newly developed test to screen for three rare genetic disorders simultaneously in newborns was feasible, reliable and scalable, according to a new study. view more A newly developed test to ...

The first biobank in Australia aiming to improve research and treatments into rare genetic diseases caused by changes to genes on chromosome 15, including Prader-Willi Syndrome and Angelman Syndrome, ...

Patients with duplication of the proximal long arm of chromosome 15 have been reported in several publications [1], and inv dup(15) which is used to define the psu dic(15;15) marker chromosomes is one ...

Mar. 7—Ten-year-old Harper Webb, a fourth-grader at Highland Elementary School, was diagnosed with Angelman Syndrome at 11 months old, and despite the diagnosis, she is a bright and kind-hearted child ...

Prader-Willi syndrome is a genetic disorder caused by changes to chromosome 15. It affects growth, behavior, and learning and requires continual management to avoid potentially life threatening ...

According to the 2016 Annual Review of Neuroscience, “the brain has emerged as a main target of genomic imprinting, generating great interest in how this epigenetic regulation provides stable ...

Actor Colin Farrell recently disclosed that his son, James, has Angelman syndrome, one of the driving factors behind Farrell's support for finding a cure for Angelman syndrome and for launching the ...

Soleno Therapeutics Inc. (NASDAQ: SLNO) pulled off in a major way its randomized-withdrawal phase III study with DCCR (diazoxide choline) in Prader-Willi syndrome, boosting the shares by $22.37, or ...