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Clinical phenotypes of a juvenile sibling pair carrying the fragile X premutation.
American journal of medical genetics. Part A - 1 Mar 2011
Basuta Kirin, Narcisa Vivien, Chavez Alyssa, Kumar Madhur, Gane Louise, Hagerman Randi, Tassone Flora
Abstract excerpt
Individuals with alleles containing 55-200 CGG repeats in the fragile X mental retardation (FMR1) gene are premutation carriers. The premutation allele has been shown to lead to a number of types of clinical involvement, including shyness, anxiety, social deficits, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), and executive function deficits. Some of these problems could be due to mild deficits of the fragile...
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