Article: Clemson researchers identify gene.(mental retardation)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)

Article: X-Linked Mental Retardation (XLMR): From Clinical ...
Critical Reviews in Clinical Laboratory Sciences;  January 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... mutations in the same gene have been identified ... mutations in the same XLMR gene may account for diseases ... corresponding to these genes are characterized, biological ... networks involved in causing mental retardation and conversely in supporting ... verify the effects of XLMR gene ...

Article: Gene Found for Rare Disorder May Reveal New Pathway in ...
PR Newswire;  February 5, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... of CdLS. The genes play important ... patients with mental retardation may have mutations in these genes, without showing ... NIPBL, the first gene known to cause ... that mutated genes along the cohesin ... in the NIPBL gene, but who were ... some degree of mental ...

Article: Origin and evolution of candidate mental ...
BMC Genomics;  February 5, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... since recessive MRX genes are more easily recognised ... if as yet unmapped MR genes were evenly distributed ... analyses concluded that mental retardation syndromes are significantly ... X chromosome. Other gene functions have also been ... early spermatogonial genes, sex and reproduction ...

Article: Mental retardation linked with gene ...
Xinhua News Agency;  February 5, 2009 ;     474 words ...Mental retardation linked with gene mutation: study LOS ... contribute to nonsyndromic mental retardation, the most common ... with nonsyndromic mental retardation. The researchers ... identified mutations in the gene in three children ...

Article: Down's syndrome: a gene associated with learning and ...
Chemistry and Industry;  November 3, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... only a few genes involved in mental retardation, so it is ... that a single gene may be responsible ... about 137 genes) that corresponds ... contain the genes responsible ... syndrome. Mental retardation Mobley's ... identify the gene responsible ...

Article: Doctors find gene tied to mental retardation
Chicago Sun-Times;  May 30, 1991 ;     656 words ... ... that we have found the gene, we know what we are ... begin to ask what the gene does normally. Then ... syndrome that causes mental retardation, and then for ways to ... who announced finding a gene probe, a kind of genetic ... the body. No similar genes have been isolated in ...

Article: TRACKING A NON-SYNDROMIC SYNDROME NEWLY FOUND X-LINKED ...
BIOWORLD Today;  September 9, 1998 ;     700+ words ... ... of X-linked mental retardation, with neither ... nonsyndromic X-linked mental retardation" - MRX for short ... nonsyndromic X-linked mental retardation." It reports ... Paved Way To Gene Discovery "Our ... the number of genes on chromosome ...