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. 1991 Aug;87(4):503-5.
doi: 10.1007/BF00197177.

The fragile X mutation does not have any major effect on the expression of the hypoxanthine phosphoribosyltransferase (HPRT) locus in human fibroblasts

A M Steen  1 , S Marcus, S Sahlén, K B Nielsen, B Lambert
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The fragile X mutation does not have any major effect on the expression of the hypoxanthine phosphoribosyltransferase (HPRT) locus in human fibroblasts

A M Steen et al. Hum Genet. 1991 Aug.

Abstract

The possible influence of the fragile X mutation at Xq27 on the expression of the neighbouring gene (at Xq26) for hypoxanthine phosphoribosyl transferase (HPRT) was studied by determination of the levels of HPRT-RNA and HPRT enzyme activity in fibroblast cell cultures from 7 fragile X patients. These levels were lower (although not statistically significantly lower) than in normal fibroblast cultures. Hence, these data do not support the notion of a major effect of the fragile X mutation on the expression of the HPRT gene.

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