Related Experiment Videos
The Rett syndrome related to fragile X(P22) in caffeine-induced lymphocyte culture
J Wahlström1, I Witt-Engerström, L Mellquist
1Department of Psychiatry III, East Hospital, Göteborg, Sweden.
Brain & Development
|January 1, 1990
Abstract:
Chromosome analyses of lymphocytes cultured in a medium supplemented with caffeine showed a significantly higher frequency of fragile X(p22) in 13 girls with the Rett syndrome (RS) than in 9 healthy controls (p less than 0.05).