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? mutation found


Posted by PHILIP on February 27, 2001 at 11:39:42:

I was just reading the new research and it looks to me like they are saying the gene that makes orexin is mutated but not the part that makes orexin. The part that is mutated is called the promotor region and controls how fast the orexin gene makes orexin.

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