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Premature ovarian failure and FRAXA premutation: Positive correlation in a Brazilian survey.
American journal of medical genetics. Part A - 30 Apr 2004
Machado-Ferreira Maria do Carmo, Costa-Lima Marcelo A, Boy Raquel T, Esteves Gabriela S, Pimentel Márcia M G
Abstract excerpt
Fragile X syndrome (FRAXA) is the most common form of inherited mental retardation (MR). The mutational mechanism leading to the disease involves an expansion of a trinucleotide repeat located at the 5' UTR region of the gene FMR-1. Four types of alleles can be identified in the population, based...
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