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Psychological status in female carriers of premutation FMR1 allele showing a complex relationship with the size of CGG expansion.
Clinical genetics - 1 Feb 2015
Loesch D Z, Bui M Q, Hammersley E, Schneider A, Storey E, Stimpson P, Burgess T, Francis D, Slater H, Tassone F, Hagerman R J, Hessl D
Abstract excerpt
We utilized a sample of 299 adult females aged between 19 and 86 years, carrying fragile X mental retardation (FMR1) alleles with small CCG expansions ranging from 50 to 141 repeats to analyse the relationships between psychological symptoms as assessed by the Symptom Checklist-90-Revised (SCL-90-R) and the size of the CGG repeat in the FMR1 gene. There were highly significant (negative) correlations between the...
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