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This essay describes the consequences of the obesity and the factors that lead to it.... Also, it outlines the link between gluttony and obesity.... Obesity is the fastest growing chronic illness of recent times.... Obesity is not just a problem in itself, but can lead to several other diseases.... ...
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Essay
DNA methylation confirms all three molecular classes along with distinguishing PWS from closely related angelman syndrome in affected individuals.... PWS is a complex neuro-developmental genetic disease.... These include FISH (fluorescence in situ hybridization) which identifies deletions, translocations, chromosomal alterations etc, High resolution chromosomal analysis test which is helpful in detection of chromosomal deletions, abnormalities, translocations and DNA methylation analysis which detects imprinting patterns and DNA polymorphism and is commonly used (99% of the cases) for accurate diagnosis for PWS....
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Article
Jerky movements, long face, prominent jaw, flattening of the occipital region, deep-set eyes, and microcephaly are characteristics of angelman syndrome which is a disorder of chromosome 15 (Schrander-Stumpel, et al, 2007).... With the genetic disorders in the fragile X syndrome, a person's brain is affected, hence, displaying characters associated with autism, which include poor eye contact, anxiety, sudden mood change, and hand flapping.... On the side of chromosomal disorders, intellectual disability like Down syndrome shows characteristics like the development of flat nose, slanted eyes, pleasant personalities, and the victims tend to smile and in a good mood most of the time (Schrander-Stumpel, et al, 2007)....
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Research Paper
Prader-Willi Syndrome has a sister syndrome that is known as angelman syndrome, which involves maternally-derived genetic material at the same exact genetic location as PWS.... The genetic disorder was first characterized by Heinrich Willi and Andrea Prader before research by Guido Fanconi, Andrew Ziegler, and Alexis Labhart provided more information on the disorder.... Prader-Willi Syndrome, as a genetic disorder, involves alterations on chromosome 15(q11-13), whereby seven genes on this chromosome are deleted (Goldstone 2009)....
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Essay
This paper ''CREB Mutation Schematic'' investigates mutations in all domains of the '3',5'-Cyclic Adenosine Monophosphate Response Element Binding' (CREB) (Brunetti, A, et al, 2000) transcriptional factor (TF) and its associated protein CBP that may result in Rubinstein-Tayebi syndrome (RTS).... The paper now focuses on the molecular and genetic identity of CBP so that the next section on possible mutations on the protein can be better understood....
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Lab Report
The paper "Obesity Is not Just a Result of Gluttony" highlights that obesity can be a result of physiological disease, whether it be spontaneous or genetic, or a result of an underlying psychological problem, and as such cannot be said to be gluttony directly.... However, several individuals do not respond to such treatment or find it difficult, perhaps due to a food addiction, slow metabolism, genetic disease, infectobesity or tendency to have a large appetite, all of which are described in more detail above....
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Due to the translocation of chromosomes 21 and 15, which cause Down syndrome in newborns, statistics show occur in 15 of every 10000 births.... Other related intellectual disabilities caused by chromosome disorder are the fragile X chromosome syndrome, Lesch-Nyhan syndrome, and Rett syndrome among others.... These hereditary factors include galactosemia, Tay-Sachs disease, phenylketonuria, Mowat-Wilson syndrome among others (American Psychiatric Association, 2000; Fernald, 1912)....
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Literature review
Prader-Willi Syndrome has a sister syndrome that is known as angelman syndrome, which involves maternally-derived genetic material at the same exact genetic location as PWS.... The genetic disorder was first characterized by Heinrich Willi and Andrea Prader before research by Guido Fanconi, Andrew Ziegler, and Alexis Labhart provided more information on the disorder.... Prader-Willi Syndrome, as a genetic disorder, involves alterations on chromosome 15(q11-13), whereby seven genes on this chromosome are deleted (Goldstone 2009)....
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Essay