Dilemmas in counselling females with the fragile X syndrome

Journal of Medical Genetics

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 167-170

  De Vries, Bert B A ^a   Van den Boer van den Berg, Hanneke M A ^a   Niermeijer, Martinus F ^a   Tibben, Aad ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Counselling; FMR1; Fragile X syndrome; Mental retardation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHORION VILLUS SAMPLING; COMPREHENSION; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; FRAGILE X SYNDROME; GENETIC COUNSELING; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL DEFICIENCY; PREGNANCY TERMINATION; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

CASE STUDIES; CLINICAL APPROACH/SOURCE; FAMILY MEMBERS; FEMALES; GENETICS AND REPRODUCTION; MALES; MENTAL HEALTH THERAPIES; SELECTIVE ABORTION;

FEMALE; FRAGILE X MENTAL RETARDATION PROTEIN; FRAGILE X SYNDROME; GENETIC COUNSELING; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL RETARDATION; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; PEDIGREE; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS;

EID: 0033060354     PISSN: 00222593     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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