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Fragile X and X-linked intellectual disability: four decades of discovery.
American journal of human genetics - 6 Apr 2012
Lubs Herbert A, Stevenson Roger E, Schwartz Charles E
Abstract excerpt
X-Linked intellectual disability (XLID) accounts for 5%-10% of intellectual disability in males. Over 150 syndromes, the most common of which is the fragile X syndrome, have been described. A large number of families with nonsyndromal XLID, 95 of which have been regionally mapped, have been described as well. Mutations in 102 X-linked genes have been associated with 81 of these XLID syndromes and with 35 of the...
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