La variación críptica y polar de la frágil repetición de X podría resultar en la predisposición de alelos normales

C B Kunst1, S T Warren

  • 1Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia 30322.

Cell
|June 17, 1994
PubMed
Resumen

El síndrome de X frágil surge de expansiones repetidas de CGG. Ciertas variantes genéticas normales (haplotipos) con repeticiones CGG más largas pueden predisponer a los individuos a esta condición, lo que sugiere una evolución genética en curso.

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