2006-10-06 12:25:25 · 4 answers · asked by denise b 2 in Health ➔ General Health Care ➔ Other - General Health Care
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fragile_x_syndrome
2006-10-06 12:27:22 · answer #1 · answered by mica 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Fragile x syndrome is an inherited syndrome which cause intellectual disabilities. It is caused by repeated triplets (CGG) in a FMR1 gene. This triplet is present in all people in low numbers, but it people with fragile x it is repeated more than 200 times. This causes the FMR1 gene to be silenced, which prevents the translation of a gene into a protein, which results in the syndrome.
2006-10-06 19:39:55 · answer #2 · answered by starla_o0 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
http://www.fragilex.org/html/summary.htm
2006-10-06 19:28:17 · answer #3 · answered by JennyAnn 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
no idea.
2006-10-06 19:27:53 · answer #4 · answered by Markin Gomez 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋