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Impaired sensorimotor gating in Fmr1 knock out and Fragile X premutation model mice.
Behavioural brain research - 1 Jul 2014
Renoux A J, Sala-Hamrick K J, Carducci N M, Frazer M, Halsey K E, Sutton M A, Dolan D F, Murphy G G, Todd P K
Abstract excerpt
Fragile X syndrome (FXS) is a common inherited cause of intellectual disability that results from a CGG repeat expansion in the FMR1 gene. Large repeat expansions trigger both transcriptional and translational suppression of Fragile X protein (FMRP) production. Fragile X-associated Tremor/Ataxia Syndrome (FXTAS) is an allelic neurodegenerative disease caused by smaller "pre-mutation" CGG repeat expansions that...
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