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Fragile X prenatal analyses show full mutation females at high risk for mosaic Turner syndrome: fragile X leads to chromosome loss.
American journal of medical genetics. Part A - 1 Oct 2009
Dobkin Carl, Radu Gabriel, Ding Xiao-Hua, Brown W Ted, Nolin Sarah L
Abstract excerpt
The fragile X mutation is an expansion of a CGG triplet repeat in the 5' untranslated region of the FMR1 gene. Expansion to >200 repeats (the "full mutation") silences FMR1 transcription and leads to the fragile X mental retardation syndrome in males and in some females. It also affects the struc...
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