Lack of FMR3 expression in a male with non-syndromic mental retardation and a microdeletion immediately distal to FRAXE CCG repeat

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 397, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 245-248

  Santos Rebouças, Cíntia Barros ^a   Abdalla, Cláudia Bueno ^a   Fullston, Tod ^b,c   Campos Jr , Mário ^a   Pimentel, Márcia Mattos Gonçalves ^a   Gécz, Jozef ^b,c  

^a PHLC   (Brazil)

^b WOMEN S AND CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

FMR2; FMR3; Fragile site; FRAXE; Mental retardation; XLMR

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CPG ISLAND; CYTOGENETICS; FMR2 GENE; FMR3 GENE; GENE; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DEFICIENCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; X CHROMOSOME LINKED DISORDER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL LINE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FIBROBLASTS; FRAGILE X SYNDROME; GENE DELETION; HUMANS; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PROTEINS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SKIN; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT EXPANSION;

EID: 33644981020     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2005.12.089     Document Type: Article

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