High prevalence of the fra(X) syndrome cannot be explained by a high mutation rate.

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The overall prevalence of the fragile X [fra(X)] mutation, as determined by population studies, is approximately 1 in 850 [Gustavson et al., 1986; Webb et al., 1986]. This prevalence suggests a very high mutation rate which, in turn, suggests that many patients have to represent sporadic cases. In order to obtain an accurate estimate of the proportion of sporadic cases, we performed genealogic, cytogenetic and...

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