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Clinical Validation of Fragile X Syndrome Screening by DNA Methylation Array.
The Journal of molecular diagnostics : JMD - 1 Nov 2016
Schenkel Laila C, Schwartz Charles, Skinner Cindy, Rodenhiser David I, Ainsworth Peter J, Pare Guillaume, Sadikovic Bekim
Abstract excerpt
Fragile X syndrome (FXS) is the most common inherited cause of intellectual disability. It is most frequently caused by an abnormal expansion of the CGG trinucleotide repeat (>200 repeats) located in the promoter of the fragile X mental retardation gene (FMR1), resulting in promoter DNA hypermethylation and gene silencing. Current clinical tests for FXS are technically challenging and labor intensive, and may...
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