LONDON: In a possible breakthrough which may pave the way for a cure for somnambulism, scientists claim to have identified the "genetic code" which makes some people sleepwalk. An international team has claimed that sufferers share a faulty chromosome which is responsible for their behaviour while asleep; by studying four generations of the same family, the scientists traced the fault to a section of chromosome 20.
Carrying even one copy of the defective DNA is enough to cause sleepwalking and having isolated the defective section of genetic code, they hope to find new treatments for the condition, the Neurology journal reported.
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