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The use of genomic microarrays to study chromosomal abnormalities in mental retardation.
Mental retardation and developmental disabilities research reviews - 1 Jan 2005
Mao Rong, Pevsner Jonathan
Abstract excerpt
Mental retardation affects 2 to 3% of the US population. It is defined by broad criteria, including significantly subaverage intelligence, onset by age 18, and impaired function in a group of adaptive skills. A myriad of genetic and environmental causes have been described, but for approximately half of individuals diagnosed with mental retardation the molecular basis remains unknown. Genomic microarrays, also...
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