Population screening at the FRAXA and FRAXE loci: Molecular analyses of boys with learning difficulties and their mothers

Human Molecular Genetics

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 727-735

  Murray, Anna ^a   Youings, Sheila ^a   Dennis, Nick ^b   Latsky, Lorinda ^a   Linehan, Paul ^b   McKechnie, Nicky ^b   Macpherson, James ^a   Pound, Michelle ^a   Jacobs, Patricia ^a  

^a SALISBURY DISTRICT HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b PRINCESS ANNE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICROSATELLITE DNA; REPETITIVE DNA; TRINUCLEOTIDE;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FRAGILE X SYNDROME; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; LEARNING DISORDER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MEIOSIS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOTHER; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; X CHROMOSOME;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; FEMALE; FRAGILE X SYNDROME; GENETIC SCREENING; HUMANS; LEARNING DISORDERS; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; MALE; MOTHERS; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEATS; X CHROMOSOME;

EID: 0029977269     PISSN: 09646906     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/hmg/5.6.727     Document Type: Article

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