Adult female fragile X premutation carriers exhibit age- and CGG repeat length-related impairments on an attentionally based enumeration task

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue JULY, 2011, Pages

  Goodrich Hunsaker, Naomi J ^a   Wong, Ling M ^a   McLennan, Yingratana ^a   Tassone, Flora ^a,b   Harvey, Danielle ^c   Rivera, Susan M ^a,c   Simon, Tony J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

X linked genetic disease

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA;

ADULT; ALLELE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FRAGILE X MENTAL RETARDATION 1 GENE; FRAGILE X PREMUTATION CARRIER; FRAGILE X SYNDROME; GENE; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENOTYPE PHENOTYPE CORRELATION; HETEROZYGOTE; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; MENTAL FUNCTION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NUMERICAL ENUMERATION; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT;

EID: 82955198526     PISSN: 16625161     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2011.00063     Document Type: Article

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