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Male with typical fragile X phenotype is deleted for part of the FMR1 gene and for about 100 kb of upstream region.
American journal of medical genetics - 15 Jul 1994
Trottier Y, Imbert G, Poustka A, Fryns J P, Mandel J L
Abstract excerpt
We report on a patient with moderate mental retardation and a typical fragile X phenotype, with no family history and no fragile X site on cytogenetic analysis. The patient was found to have a deletion encompassing part of the FMR1 gene and a 70-100 kb region upstream of the FMR1 promotor region. This deletion is smaller than those previously reported and confirms that FMR1 is the major and probably the only gene...
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