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Transmitting males and carrier females in fragile X--revisited.
American journal of medical genetics - 15 Jul 1994
Loesch D Z, Hay D A, Mulley J
Abstract excerpt
Fragile X "transmitting males" have customarily been defined as phenotypically normal hemizygotes, who show very few or no fragile sites, and who transmit the fragile X premutation to phenotypically normal daughters. However, an objective justification of this definition was lacking. The discovery of an unstable CCG repeat as the genetic basis of fragile X further emphasized the apparent distinction between the...
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