Article
Trisomic pregnancy and intermediate CGG repeat length at the FMR1 locus.
Human reproduction (Oxford, England) - 1 Jul 2012
Kline J, Kinney A, Brown S, Levin B, Oppenheimer K, Warburton D
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: We hypothesized that trisomy arises as a function of the size of the oocyte pool, with risk increased among women with diminished pools. Diminished pools may cause primary ovarian failure, which has been associated with premutation and intermediate CGG repeat length at the Fragile X mental retardation (FMR1) locus. Thus, we hypothesized that the risk of trisomic pregnancy is increased among women with...
Topics
- Abortion, Spontaneous
- Alleles
- Aneuploidy
- Case-Control Studies
- Chromosome Mapping
- Female
- Fragile X Mental Retardation Protein
- Fragile X Syndrome
- Genotype
- Humans
- Mutation
