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Clinical, cytogenetic, and molecular analysis of three families with FRAXE.
Journal of medical genetics - 1 Jan 1997
Barnicoat A J, Wang Q, Turk J, Green E, Mathew C G, Flynn G, Buckle V, Hirst M, Davies K, Bobrow M
Abstract excerpt
The probe StB12.3 has been used to screen the FMR-1 gene in 42 pedigrees with a distal Xq fragile site for expansion of the CCG repeat and aberrant methylation of the FRAXA locus. Four families did not have a FRAXA mutation and were investigated further. Fluorescent in situ hybridisation (FISH) and molecular analyses showed that three of these families had an expansion at FRAXE and one at FRAXE. Detailed...
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