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Fragile X syndrome due to a missense mutation.
European journal of human genetics : EJHG - 1 Oct 2014
Myrick Leila K, Nakamoto-Kinoshita Mika, Lindor Noralane M, Kirmani Salman, Cheng Xiaodong, Warren Stephen T
Abstract excerpt
Fragile X syndrome is a common inherited form of intellectual disability and autism spectrum disorder. Most patients exhibit a massive CGG-repeat expansion mutation in the FMR1 gene that silences the locus. In over two decades since the discovery of FMR1, only a single missense mutation (p.(Ile304Asn)) has been reported as causing fragile X syndrome. Here we describe a 16-year-old male presenting with fragile X...
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