Article
Study of color vision in fragile X syndrome.
American journal of medical genetics - 15 Jan 1992
Finucane B M, Jaeger E, Dunn E, Scott C I
Abstract excerpt
Various theories have been postulated to account for the unusual inheritance pattern observed in the fragile X syndrome. The recent finding of a secondary amplification of the fragile X mutation in the offspring of carrier females [Oberle et al., 1991; Yu et al., 1991] is consistent with a maternal imprinting process. Laird [1987] has proposed that the fragile X mutation blocks complete reactivation of a...
Topics
- Adolescent
- Adult
- Aged
- Child
- Child, Preschool
- Color Perception
- Female
- Fragile X Syndrome
- Genetic Linkage
- Humans
- Male
- Middle Aged
- Pedigree