SOURCE: Medical News Today
DATE: December 11, 2009
EXCERPT: "Researchers have discovered a new explanation for differences in the severity of mental illness in males. The more excess copies of a certain gene, the more serious the handicap. The genetic defect is situated on the X-chromosome; and it is suspected that it is the amount of copies of the GDI1 gene that is responsible." more
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Vandewalle J, Van Esch H, Govaerts K, Verbeeck J, Zweier C, Madrigal I, Mila M, Pijkels E, Fernandez I, Kohlhase J, Spaich C, Rauch A, Fryns JP, Marynen P, Froyen G. Dosage-dependent severity of the phenotype in patients with mental retardation due to a recurrent copy-number gain at Xq28 mediated by an unusual recombination. Am J Hum Genet. 2009 Dec;85(6):809-22.
DATE: December 11, 2009
EXCERPT: "Researchers have discovered a new explanation for differences in the severity of mental illness in males. The more excess copies of a certain gene, the more serious the handicap. The genetic defect is situated on the X-chromosome; and it is suspected that it is the amount of copies of the GDI1 gene that is responsible." more
RELATED PUBMED LINK:
Vandewalle J, Van Esch H, Govaerts K, Verbeeck J, Zweier C, Madrigal I, Mila M, Pijkels E, Fernandez I, Kohlhase J, Spaich C, Rauch A, Fryns JP, Marynen P, Froyen G. Dosage-dependent severity of the phenotype in patients with mental retardation due to a recurrent copy-number gain at Xq28 mediated by an unusual recombination. Am J Hum Genet. 2009 Dec;85(6):809-22.
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