Article
Segregation of FRAXE in a large family: clinical, psychometric, cytogenetic, and molecular data.
American journal of human genetics - 1 Nov 1994
Hamel B C, Smits A P, de Graaff E, Smeets D F, Schoute F, Eussen B H, Knight S J, Davies K E, Assman-Hulsmans C F, Oostra B A
Abstract excerpt
During an ongoing study on X-linked mental retardation, we ascertained a large family in which mild mental retardation was cosegregating with a fragile site at Xq27-28. Clinical, psychometric, cytogenetic, and molecular studies were performed. Apart from mild mental retardation, affected males and females did not show a specific clinical phenotype. Psychometric assessment of four representative affected...
Topics
- Adolescent
- Adult
- Base Sequence
- Child
- Chromosome Fragile Sites
- Chromosome Fragility
- DNA
- Female
- Fragile X Syndrome
- Humans
- In Situ Hybridization, Fluorescence
