Oxytocin and vasopressin are dysregulated in Williams Syndrome, a genetic disorder affecting social behavior.

The molecular and neural mechanisms regulating human social-emotional behaviors are fundamentally important but largely unknown; unraveling these requires a genetic systems neuroscience analysis of human models. Williams Syndrome (WS), a condition caused by deletion of ~28 genes, is associated with...

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Main Authors: Li Dai, C Sue Carter, Jian Ying, Ursula Bellugi, Hossein Pournajafi-Nazarloo, Julie R Korenberg
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3373592?pdf=render