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Premutation female carriers of fragile X syndrome: a pilot study on brain anatomy and metabolism.
Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry - 1 Oct 1999
Murphy D G, Mentis M J, Pietrini P, Grady C L, Moore C J, Horwitz B, Hinton V, Dobkin C S, Schapiro M B, Rapoport S I
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OBJECTIVE: It was thought that premutation carriers of fragile X syndrome (FraX) have no neurobiological abnormalities, but there have been no quantitative studies of brain morphometry and metabolism. Thus the authors investigated brain structure and metabolism in premutation carriers of FraX. METHOD: Eight normal IQ, healthy female permutation FraX carriers aged 39 +/- 9 years (mean +/- SD) and 32...
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