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Understanding decreased fertility in women carriers of the FMR1 premutation: a possible mechanism for Fragile X-Associated Primary Ovarian Insufficiency (FXPOI).
Reproductive health - 19 Aug 2014
Peprah Emmanuel
Abstract excerpt
Fragile X syndrome (FXS) and its associated disorders are caused by the expansion of the CGG repeat in the 5' untranslated region of the fragile X mental retardation 1 gene (FMR1). The full mutation, defined as >200 cytosine-guanine-guanine (CGG) triplet repeats, causes FXS. Individuals with 55-199 CGG repeats, classified as premutation carriers, are affected by two distinct disorders depending on their...
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