Article
[The adult mentally handicapped in psychiatry. Etiologic study with research on the fragile X chromosome].
Acta psychiatrica Belgica - 1 Jan 2000
Ferauge M
Abstract excerpt
The origin of mental retardation is up to now largely unknown. The present study stows the traditional diagnosis away and insists on new genetic notions such as the fragile X chromosome. These new methods may offer help and advice to the family of the mentally handicapped.
Topics
- Adult
- Fragile X Syndrome
- Genetic Counseling
- Humans
- Intellectual Disability
- Karyotyping
- Male
- Middle Aged
- Pedigree
- Phenotype
- Sex Chromosome Aberrations
- Syndrome