Angelman Syndrome

Angelman syndrome was discovered in 1965 by Harry Angelman. This is a complex genetic disorder that affects the nervous system.symptoms of this disease include development delay, intellectual disability,severe speech impairment,and seizures.treatments for this disease involve physical therapy, adaptive devices to assist with balance problems,speech therapy,and anti-convulsive medications.a child can be diagnosed between the ages of six to twelve months,and should live a normal life span.people of all races can get this disease.one in 12,000 people in the u.s have this disease.you are more vulnerable to this disease if your parent has it and you inherit it from your mother.some of the things that are happening at the molecular level is that they find how small areas in chromosomes are activated or in activated.if it is turned on it does not occur, and if it is turned of or is missing it does occur.it is hard to prevent this syndrome because you usually inherit it from a parent.
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