Does any one know which chromosome that Tourettes Syndorme is linked to?!


Question: I'm doing a school project and cant find the answer. Please give me the e-mail address or how you found out the answer so i can site it in my bibliography. THANKS!


Answers: I'm doing a school project and cant find the answer. Please give me the e-mail address or how you found out the answer so i can site it in my bibliography. THANKS!

" In a paper published in the October 14, 2005 Science magazine, (a publication of the American Association for the Advancement of Science), Vol.310 (#5746) pp 317-320, findings were reported by a team led by Dr. Matthew State, Assistant Professor of Child Psychiatry and Genetics, Yale University School of Medicine and Child Study Center. Pursuing genetic analysis of one boy with TS with a known chromosomal abnormality, the group was able to pinpoint a gene (SLITRK1) on Chromosome 13 that is associated with some forms of TS. This gene is expressed in several areas in the brain



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