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fragile X syndrome
(redirected from Fragile x mental retardation protein)

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fragile X syndrome [‚frajĀ·əl ′eks ‚sin‚drōm]
(medicine)
A hereditary condition resulting from a trinucleotide repeat at an inherited fragile site on the long arm of the X chromosome. Affected males usually have some characteristic facial features, enlarged testes, and mental retardation. Females with on fragile X chromosome and one normal X chromosome may have a lesser degree of mental retardation.


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They identified these proteins using an artificial system of increasing fragile X mental retardation protein in the eyes of fruit flies.
It is caused by a mutation in the FMR1 gene on the X chromosome that prevents expression of a single protein, the fragile X mental retardation protein (FMRP).
 
 
 
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