Mental retardation: genetic findings, clinical implications and research agenda.

doi:10.1111/j.1469-7610.1996.tb01404.x

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Mental retardation: genetic findings, clinical implications and research agenda.

Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines - 1 Mar 1996

Simonoff E, Bolton P, Rutter M

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The most important genetic advances in the field of mental retardation include the discovery of the novel genetic mechanism responsible for the Fragile X syndrome, and the imprinting involved in the Prader-Willi and Angelman syndromes, but there have also been advances in our understanding of the...

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Chromosome Aberrations
Chromosome Disorders
Diseases in Twins
Environment
Humans
Intellectual Disability
Intelligence
Phenotype
Research

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