Archive for the 'Williams Syndrome' Category

Williams Syndrome Grows in Awareness, Research

(OAD: 7/23/10) Kids Too Nice to Be Normal: Williams Syndrome is a rare genetic condition — so rare, in fact, that few people have ever heard of it. Of about 7500 newborns, only one will have it. But that one, should you ever meet him or her, (OAD: 7/23/10) Kids Too Nice to Be Normal: [...]

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

Williams syndrome affects facial physicality (characterized by an elfin appearance) and results in cardiovascular problems, but this research is primality concerned with the fact that the disorder results in hyper social and To 7-year-old twins Tristan and Tyler Waldner, there are no strangers. The boys have an genetic condition called the Williams syndrome which makes [...]