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The genetic landscape of intellectual disability arising from chromosome X.
Trends in genetics : TIG - 1 Jul 2009
Gécz Jozef, Shoubridge Cheryl, Corbett Mark
Abstract excerpt
X-linked mental retardation (XLMR) or intellectual disability (ID) is a common, clinically complex and genetically heterogeneous disease arising from many mutations along the X chromosome. It affects between 1/600-1/1000 males and a substantial number of females. Research during the past decade has identified >90 different XLMR genes, affecting a wide range of cellular processes. Many more genes remain...
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