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Preimplantation diagnosis for fragile X syndrome based on the detection of the non-expanded paternal and maternal CGG

par Sermon, Karen;Seneca, Sara;Vanderfaeillie, Anna;Lissens, Willy;Joris, Hubert;Vandervorst, Mark;Van Steirteghem, André;Liebaers, Ingeborg
Référence Prenatal diagnosis, 19, 13, page (1223-1230)
Publication Publié, 1999

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Fragile X syndrome is the most common monogenic cause of mental retardation in boys. It is always characterized clinically by moderate mental retardation and often by a long face with large everted ears and macro-orchidism. The causal mutation is an expansion of a CGG triplet repeat in a 5' exon of the FMR-1 gene in Xq27.3. We report here for the first time a method for preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) for fragile X syndrome based on the amplification of the CGG triplet in the normal allele. Our candidate-patient population, as well as two clinical preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) cycles which led to a pregnancy with an unaffected fetus, are presented in this paper.