Article
Animal model for fragile X syndrome.
Annals of medicine - 1 Dec 1997
Oostra B A, Hoogeveen A T
Abstract excerpt
The fragile X syndrome, one of the most common forms of inherited mental retardation, is caused by an expansion of a polymorphic CGG repeat upstream of the coding region in the FMR1 gene. The expansion blocks expression of the FMR1 gene due to methylation of the FMR1 promoter. Functional studies...
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