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Frequency of FMR1 premutations in a consecutive newborn population by PCR screening of Guthrie blood spots.
Biochemical and molecular medicine - 1 Oct 1995
Dawson A J, Chodirker B N, Chudley A E
Abstract excerpt
The fragile X(A) or FRAXA syndrome is the most common form of familial mental retardation and is associated with a fragile site at Xq27.3. The gene responsible for the FRAXA syndrome, the FMR1 gene, has been cloned. inactivation of the FMR1 gene is associated with amplification of a trinucle-otide CGG repeat sequence and methylation of an adjacent CpG island. Previous estimates for the prevalence of the FRAXA...
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