Large-Scale Medical Resequencing for X-Linked Mental Retardation
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Large-scale medical resequencing for X-linked mental retardation.
Severe intellectual disability (ID), commonly referred to as mental retardation (MR), comprises a large collection of clinical conditions whose associated phenotypes include substantially below-average intelligence test scores and limited abilities in socially adaptive behaviors, such as communication, self-care, social interaction, and school functioning. ID/MR affects 1%–3% of the worldwide p...
متن کاملX-linked mental retardation.
A survey of the mentally retarded children with an IQ between 30 and 55 born in a 10-year period (1955-64) and now of school age was carried out in New South Wales. The number of propositi who had a similarly affected sib of the same sex was ascertained; 58 boys had a similarly affected brother(s) and 22 girls had a similarly affected sister(s). It is suggested that the excess of affected broth...
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The search for the genetic defects in constitutional diseases has so far been restricted to direct methods for the identification of genetic mutations in the patients' genome. Traditional methods such as karyotyping, FISH, mutation screening, positional cloning and CGH, have been complemented with newer methods including array-CGH and PCR-based approaches (MLPA, qPCR). These methods have reveal...
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X-linked alpha thalassaemia mental retardation (ATR-X) syndrome in males is associated with profound developmental delay, facial dysmorphism, genital abnormalities and alpha thalassaemia. Female carriers are usually physically and intellectually normal. So far, 168 patients have been reported. Language is usually very limited. Seizures occur in about one third of the cases. While many patients ...
متن کاملAlpha thalassaemia - mental retardation , X linked Richard
X-linked alpha thalassaemia mental retardation (ATR-X) syndrome in males is associated with profound developmental delay, facial dysmorphism, genital abnormalities and alpha thalassaemia. Female carriers are usually physically and intellectually normal. So far, 168 patients have been reported. Language is usually very limited. Seizures occur in about one third of the cases. While many patients ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Clinical Chemistry
سال: 2010
ISSN: 0009-9147,1530-8561
DOI: 10.1373/clinchem.2009.135020