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Premature ovarian failure and FMR1 premutation co-segregation in a large Brazilian family.
International journal of molecular medicine - 1 Aug 2002
Machado-Ferreira M C, Costa-Lima M A, Boy R T, Esteves G S, Pimentel M M G
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Fragile X syndrome is the most common form of inherited mental retardation in men. The molecular mechanism underlying the disease is an amplification of a polymorphic trinucleotide repeat (CGG)n located at 5' end of FMR1 which promotes transcriptional silencing of the gene. Four different classes of alleles could be distinguished in the population based on the size of the repeat, however only large amplifications...
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