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Reduced FMR1 mRNA translation efficiency in fragile X patients with premutations.
RNA (New York, N.Y.) - 1 Dec 2002
Primerano Beatrice, Tassone Flora, Hagerman Randi J, Hagerman Paul, Amaldi Francesco, Bagni Claudia
Abstract excerpt
The Fragile X mental retardation gene (FMR1) contains a polymorphic trinucleotide CGG repeat in the 5' untranslated region (UTR) of the FMR1 messenger. We have characterized three lymphoblastoid cell lines derived from unrelated male carriers of a premutation that overexpress FMR1 mRNA and show reduced FMRP level compared to normal cells. The analysis of polysomes/mRNPs distribution of mRNA in the cell lines with...
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