Article
Premature ovarian failure in the fragile X syndrome.
American journal of medical genetics - 1 Jan 2000
Sherman S L
Abstract excerpt
The full mutation leading to the fragile X syndrome is a dynamic trinucleotide repeat located in the 5' untranslated region of the FMR1 gene. The premutation allele contains approximately 60 to 199 repeats, is unstable, and originally not considered detrimental; that is, there did not appear to be a phenotype consequence of the long repeat tract. However, in the late 1980s and early 1990s, preliminary findings...
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