Expansion of an FMR1 grey-zone allele to a full mutation in two generations

Journal of Molecular Diagnostics

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 306-310

  Fernandez Carvajal, Isabel ^a   Posadas, Blanca Lopez ^a   Pan, Ruiqin ^b   Raske, Christopher ^b   Hagerman, Paul J ^b,c   Tassone, Flora ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALLADOLID   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FRAGILE X MENTAL RETARDATION PROTEIN;

ADOLESCENT; ALLELE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FAMILY; FEMALE; GENE; GRANDCHILD; HUMAN; MALE; MUTATION;

ALLELES; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FRAGILE X MENTAL RETARDATION PROTEIN; FRAGILE X SYNDROME; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMANS; MALE; MUTATION; PEDIGREE; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT EXPANSION;

EID: 69249093477     PISSN: 15251578     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2353/jmoldx.2009.080174     Document Type: Article

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