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Preimplantation genetic diagnosis for fragile X syndrome using multiplex nested PCR.
Reproductive biomedicine online - 1 Apr 2007
Malcov Mira, Naiman Tova, Yosef Dalit Ben, Carmon Ariella, Mey-Raz Nava, Amit Ami, Vagman Israel, Yaron Yuval
Abstract excerpt
Fragile X syndrome is caused by a dynamic mutation in the FMR1 gene. Normal individuals have <55 CGG repeats in the 5 untranslated region, premutation carriers have 55-200 repeats and a full mutation has >200 repeats. Female carriers are at risk of having affected offspring. A multiplex nested po...
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