| Literature DB >> 2041732 |
A Dietrich1, P Kioschis, A P Monaco, B Gross, B Korn, S V Williams, D Sheer, D Heitz, I Oberle, D Toniolo.
Abstract
The fragile X syndrome (FraX), the most common inherited form of mental retardation, has been located to Xq27.3. As a step in the molecular analysis of this mutation, we have cloned a contiguous 1.8 Mb region containing the entire fragile X region in YAC and cosmid clones. The cloned area defines a region of 50 kb containing a CpG island, found to be selectively methylated in patients expressing the fragile X phenotype. In this 50kb area we have localised the breakpoints of four somatic cell hybrids selected to break at the position of the fragile site. Fluorescence in-situ hybridisation of cosmids flanking this area shows that the breakpoints, the CpG island and the fragile site coincide.Entities:
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Year: 1991 PMID: 2041732 PMCID: PMC328171 DOI: 10.1093/nar/19.10.2567
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Nucleic Acids Res ISSN: 0305-1048 Impact factor: 16.971