Article
Fragile X premutation screening in women with premature ovarian failure.
Human reproduction (Oxford, England) - 1 May 1998
Conway G S, Payne N N, Webb J, Murray A, Jacobs P A
Abstract excerpt
We have screened 132 women with premature ovarian failure for fragile X (FRAXA) premutations. Three out of 23 (13%) pedigrees with the familial premature ovarian failure and 3/106 (3%) of women with the sporadic form of premature ovarian failure have FRAXA premutations compared with an expected p...
Topics
- Adult
- Female
- Fragile X Mental Retardation Protein
- Fragile X Syndrome
- Genetic Markers
- Genetic Testing
- Humans
- Male
- Minisatellite Repeats
- Mutation
- Nerve Tissue Proteins
- Ovary
- Pedigree
- Primary Ovarian Insufficiency
- RNA-Binding Proteins
- Trinucleotide Repeats
- X Chromosome
