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Prevalence of the fragile X syndrome in African-Americans.
American journal of medical genetics - 1 Jul 2002
Crawford Dana C, Meadows Kellen L, Newman James L, Taft Lisa F, Scott Elizabeth, Leslie Mary, Shubek Lisa, Holmgreen Patricia, Yeargin-Allsopp Marshalyn, Boyle Coleen, Sherman Stephanie L
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Since the development of a molecular diagnosis for the fragile X syndrome in the early 1990s, several population-based studies in Caucasians of mostly northern European descent have established that the prevalence is probably between one in 6,000 to one in 4,000 males in the general population. Reports of increased or decreased prevalence of the fragile X syndrome exist for a few other world populations; however,...
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