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Trinucleotide repeat amplification and hypermethylation of a CpG island in FRAXE mental retardation.

We have cloned the fragile site FRAXE and demonstrate that individuals with this fragile site possess amplifications of a GCC repeat adjacent to a CpG island in Xq28 of the human X chromosome. Normal individuals have 6-25 copies of the GCC repeat, whereas mentally retarded, FRAXE-positive individuals have > 200 copies and also have methylation at the CpG island. This situation is similar to that seen at the FRAXA locus and is another example in which a trinucleotide repeat expansion is associated with a human genetic disorder. In contrast with the fragile X syndrome, the GCC repeat can expand or contract and is equally unstable when passed through the male or female line. These results also have implications for the understanding of chromosome fragility.[1]

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  1. Trinucleotide repeat amplification and hypermethylation of a CpG island in FRAXE mental retardation. Knight, S.J., Flannery, A.V., Hirst, M.C., Campbell, L., Christodoulou, Z., Phelps, S.R., Pointon, J., Middleton-Price, H.R., Barnicoat, A., Pembrey, M.E. Cell (1993) [Pubmed]
 
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