The CGG Repeat and the FMR1 Gene

Overview

Journal Methods Mol Biol

Specialty Molecular Biology

Date 2004 Jun 18

PMID 15201456

Citations 6

Authors

Violeta Stoyanova

Ben A Oostra

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Abstract

This review intends to provide the different DNA methods for diagnosis of the repeat in the FMR1 gene. The two DNA methods to determine the CGG repeat size are Southern blot hybridization and the polymerase chain reaction (PCR), including bisulfite treatment.

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