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Premature ovarian failure and fragile X female premutation carriers: no evidence for a skewed X-chromosome inactivation pattern.
Menopause (New York, N.Y.) - 1 Jan 2000
Rodriguez-Revenga Laia, Madrigal Irene, Badenas Celia, Xunclà Mar, Jiménez Loli, Milà Montserrat
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OBJECTIVE: The association between FMR1 premutation and ovarian dysfunction has been widely studied, and many factors such as the repeat tract size, the sequence organization of the CGG repeat tract, the parental origin of the premutation, and the FMR1 mRNA levels have been examined. X-chromosome inactivation has also been studied as a risk factor, but the reported results are inconclusive. Although some authors...
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