Angelman syndrome is a rare genetic disorder, which affects the nervous system. The people who are affected by the disease, show the characteristics like intellectual disability, severe speech impairment, delayed development and issues with movement and balance.
Angelman syndrome causes are due to genetic abnormalities that involve the chromosome 15q11-13 region, which is subjected to genomic imprinting. These include maternal deletion, paternal uniparental disomy, imprinting defects, point mutations or small deletions within the UBE3A gene, which lies within this region.
Angelman syndrome Epidemiology
As per DelveInsight estimates, the total Ange...