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"Fragile X Screening" - with Dr. Tamar Goldwaser

Healthful Woman Podcast

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The Fragile Gene

The ex chromosome is fragile, which isn't unusual. We don't normally refer to jeans that way. The number of repeats can start to increase as it gets passed along through the generations. And so a mother can have 30 repeats, and oas it's under forty five, it's considered stable. But once she has 50 repeats or 55 repeats, and when she passes on that jean to her children, it gets a little more unstable. Is the reason it was called fragile X like why the word fragile was used? Yes slike an odd name for a condition where they'r like ther like their saying that disease is the ex chromozome.

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