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Fragile X syndrome

What are the causes?

The cause is an abnormal expansion of DNA just above the tip of the X chromosome's long arm, which may be passed from one generation to the next.

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Medical text and Psychological and behavioural characteristics text written June 1997 by Dr A Barnicoat, Consultant in Clinical Genetics, Institute of Child Health, London, UK and Professor J Turk. Last updated December 2005 by Professor J Turk, Professor of Developmental Psychiatry and Consultant Child & Adolescent Psychiatrist, Department of Clinical Developmental Sciences, St. George's Hospital Medical School, London, UK.

 

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