Reduced telomere length in individuals with FMR1 premutations and full mutations

American Journal of Medical Genetics, Part A

Volumn 158 A, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1060-1065

  Jenkins, Edmund C ^a   Tassone, Flora ^b,c   Ye, Lingling ^a   Hoogeveen, André T ^d   Brown, W Ted ^a   Hagerman, Randi J ^b,e   Hagerman, Paul J ^b,c  

^a NEW YORK STATE INSTITUTE FOR BASIC RESEARCH IN DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

FISH; FMR1; Fragile X Syndrome; Full Mutation; FXTAS; PNA telomere probe; Premutation; Shorter Telomeres

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALLELE; ARTICLE; CGG REPEAT; CHILD; CHROMOSOME 1; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CHROMOSOME ARM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FRAGILE X MENTAL RETARDATION GENE; GENE; GENE MUTATION; GENE PREMUTATION; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTERPHASE; LIGHT INTENSITY; MALE; METAPHASE CHROMOSOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; SCHOOL CHILD; T LYMPHOCYTE; TELOMERE; TELOMERE LENGTH; TELOMERE SHORTENING; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FRAGILE X MENTAL RETARDATION PROTEIN; HUMANS; LIGHT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR PROBE TECHNIQUES; MUTATION; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; T-LYMPHOCYTES; TELOMERE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84859946537     PISSN: 15524825     EISSN: 15524833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajmg.a.35275     Document Type: Article

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