News Fresh Today: Researchers Establish Link Between Circadian Clock and Angelman Syndrome

Sunday, 1 March 2015

Researchers Establish Link Between Circadian Clock and Angelman Syndrome

Angelman syndrome is a debilitating genetic disorder that occurs in more than one in every 15,000 live births. Monitoring participants' biological clocks may be the quickest way to determine the effectiveness of experimental drugs currently under development to treat Angelman syndrome. That is one of the implications of a study published in the Feb. 5 issue of the journal iCurrent Biology/i which establishes a molecular-level link between a slow-down in the ...