Nucleotides are the basic building block of DNA, and alteration of a single nucleotide could initiate fragile X syndrome, the most common inherited form of intellectual disability, reveal researchers. The study appears in emThe Journal of Cell Biology/em. Fragile X syndrome is caused by a defect in a gene on the X chromosome called emfragile X mental retardation 1 (FMR1)/em. Around 1 in 230 women and 1 in 360 men carry a so-called premutation, in which ...
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