Biomedical advances in developmental psychology: the case of fragile X syndrome.
Fragile X syndrome, the most common inherited cause of mental retardation, is caused by an abnormal gene on the bottom end of the X chromosome. Discovered and sequenced in 1991, it is called the Fragile X Mental Retardation-1 (FMR-1) gene. Mutations in the FMR-1 gene include small expansions with...
| Publicado en: | Developmental Psychology Vol. 32; pp. 416 - 425 |
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American Psychological Association
May 1996
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