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Molecular predictors of cognitive involvement in female carriers of fragile X syndrome.
JAMA - 16 Feb 1994
Taylor A K, Safanda J F, Fall M Z, Quince C, Lang K A, Hull C E, Carpenter I, Staley L W, Hagerman R J
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OBJECTIVE: Fragile X syndrome is caused by a mutation involving expansion of a CGG trinucleotide repeat segment in the fragile X mental retardation-1 (FMR1) gene on the long arm of the X chromosome. This study was undertaken to determine the relative impact of three molecular characteristics of the FMR1 mutation--number of CGG repeats, methylation status, and X inactivation ratio--on the cognitive involvement of...
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