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A female with typical fragile-X phenotype caused by maternal isodisomy of the entire X chromosome.
Journal of human genetics - 1 Jun 2020
Kim Jin-Kyung, Jeong Ji-Eun, Choi Jong-Moon, Kim Gu-Hwan, Yoo Han-Wook
Abstract excerpt
Fragile X syndrome (FXS) is the most common inherited cause of intellectual disability, especially in males. Females with FXS tend to be relatively mildly affected because of compensation by a second X chromosome with a normal FMR1 gene. In most cases, FXS is caused by an expansion of the CGG repeats (>200 triplets, full mutation, FM) in the 5'-untranslated region of the FMR1 gene. Premutation alleles (PM, 55-200...
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