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Molecular heterogeneity of the fragile X syndrome.
Nucleic acids research - 25 Aug 1991
Nakahori Y, Knight S J, Holland J, Schwartz C, Roche A, Tarleton J, Wong S, Flint T J, Froster-Iskenius U, Bentley D
Abstract excerpt
The fragile X syndrome is an X-linked disorder which has been shown to be associated with the length variation of a DNA fragment containing a CGG trinucleotide repeat element at or close to the fragile site. Phenotypically normal carriers of the disorder generally have a smaller length variation than affected individuals. We have cloned the region in cosmids and defined the area containing the amplified sequence....
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