The most common inherited form of mental retardation, fragile X syndrome, continues to baffle researchers even though the mutant gene responsible for the condition was identified a decade ago.
Now, several research groups are unraveling how this single flawed gene on the X chromosome alters a cell’s use of protein-building instructions from dozens, even hundreds, of other genes.
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