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New insights into Fragile X syndrome. Relating genotype to phenotype at the molecular level.
The FEBS journal - 1 Feb 2005
Pozdnyakova Irina, Regan Lynne
Abstract excerpt
Lack of functional Fragile X mental retardation protein (FMRP) is the primary cause of the Fragile-mental retardation syndrome in humans. In most cases, the disease results from transcriptional silencing of fragile mental retardation gene 1, fmr1, which encodes FMRP. However, a single missense mutation (I304N) in the second KH domain of FMRP gives rise to a particularly severe case of Fragile X syndrome. A...
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