WILLIAMS SYNDROME

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WILLIAMS SYNDROME

• Medical/Physical Symptoms
• Arterial Stenosis
• Distinctive Facies
• Growth Retardation
• Mental Retardation

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Contiguous-Gene-Deletion Syndrome

• Williams Syndrome owes to an approximately 2.0
  megabase deletion on 7q11.23

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Williams Deletion Region
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Cognitive Profile

• Relative intact verbal and linguistic abilities
• Severely deficient visual-spatial abilities
• Musicality

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Behavioral Symptoms

• Overly friendly
• Attention/Anxiety problems
• Hyperacusis

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