Postmortem examination of two fragile X brothers with an FMR1 full mutation

American Journal of Medical Genetics

Volumn 84, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 245-249

  Reyniers, Edwin ^a   Martin, Jean Jacques ^a   Cras, Patrick ^a   Van Marck, Eric ^b   Handig, Ingrid ^a   Jorens, Hugo Z J ^c   Oostra, Ben A ^d   Kooy, R Frank ^a   Willems, Patrick J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^b ANTWERP UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

^c Psychiatric Hospital Sint Amadeus   (Belgium)

^d ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

CGG repeat; Dynamic mutation; FMR1; Fragile X syndrome; Pathology; Somatic mosaicism

Indexed keywords

CYTOSINE; GUANINE; NUCLEOTIDE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CASE REPORT; CEREBELLUM HYPOPLASIA; CHROMOSOME MOSAICISM; DNA DETERMINATION; FRAGILE X SYNDROME; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INCIDENCE; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT;

ADULT; AGED; BRAIN; DNA; FRAGILE X MENTAL RETARDATION PROTEIN; FRAGILE X SYNDROME; HUMANS; MOSAICISM; MUTATION; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS;

EID: 0033612150     PISSN: 01487299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-8628(19990528)84:3<245::AID-AJMG16>3.0.CO;2-U     Document Type: Article

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