{"id":9413,"date":"2019-05-22T16:18:44","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:18:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/williams_syndrome\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T16:18:44","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:18:44","slug":"williams_syndrome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/williams_syndrome\/","title":{"rendered":"Williams syndrome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Also known as the Williams-Beuren syndrome, it is a rare disorder in which a small number of genes (estimated to be about 21) are deleted from a specific region of the seventh chromosome (7q11.23). &nbsp;It is characterized by physical abnormalities, mild to moderate intellectual impairment, and an outgoing, overly friendly personality. &nbsp;Perhaps with tongue in cheek, it was speculated that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.halfsigma.com\/2010\/04\/williams-syndrome-and-learning-by-mimicking.html\" class=\"cc-route-enabled\" data-editable-link=\"http:\/\/www.halfsigma.com\/2010\/04\/williams-syndrome-and-learning-by-mimicking.html&amp;target=_self\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sarah Palin<\/a> has a type of personality that fits with Williams syndrome: she is talkative and very sociable, can perform well in public, but she does not seem to fully grasp the meaning of anything she says. &nbsp;Also: Mick Jagger has facial features of Williams syndrome according to some: &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/health-26888280\" class=\"cc-route-enabled\" data-editable-link=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/health-26888280&amp;target=_self\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">BBC news website overview report:&nbsp;http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/health-26888280<\/a><\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"aortic_hypoplasia\">Aortic hypoplasia<\/a>, <a href=\"chromosome\">Chromosome<\/a>, Configural processing, Developmental disorder, <a href=\"elastin_-gene-\">Elastin (gene)<\/a>, <a href=\"limkinase_1_gene\">Limkinase 1 gene<\/a>, <a href=\"prosopagnosia\">Prosopagnosia<\/a>, Supraalvular aortic stenosis (SVAS), <a href=\"turner-s_syndrome\">Turner&#8217;s syndrome<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Also known as the Williams-Beuren syndrome, it is a rare disorder in which a small number of genes (estimated to be about 21) are deleted from a specific region of the seventh chromosome (7q11.23). &nbsp;It is characterized by physical abnormalities, mild to moderate intellectual impairment, and an outgoing, overly friendly personality. &nbsp;Perhaps with tongue in &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/williams_syndrome\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Williams syndrome&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-9413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9413\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}