Syndrome, Martin-Bell

Syndrome, Martin-Bell
Better known as the fragile X syndrome, the most common heritable form of mental retardation. Fragile X syndrome is due to mutation (changes) at the fragile X site and so perforce is X-linked (carried on the X chromosome). Although it is usually more severe in males than females, the syndrome is due to a dynamic mutation (a trinucleotide repeat) that can change in length and hence in severity from generation to generation, from person to person, and even within a given person. The fragile X syndrome is known as the Martin-Bell syndrome in honor of their discovery of it in 1943.

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  • Martin-Bell syndrome — Martin Bell syndrome. = fragile X syndrome (см.). (Источник: «Англо русский толковый словарь генетических терминов». Арефьев В.А., Лисовенко Л.А., Москва: Изд во ВНИРО, 1995 г.) …   Молекулярная биология и генетика. Толковый словарь.

  • Martin-Bell-Syndrom — Klassifikation nach ICD 10 Q99.2 Fragiles X Chromosom Syndrom des fragilen X Chromosoms …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • Martin-Bell syndrome — Mar·tin Bell syndrome (mahrґtin belґ) [James Purdon Martin, British physician, 1893–1984; Julia Bell, British geneticist, 1879–1979] fragile X syndrome …   Medical dictionary

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  • syndrome — The aggregate of symptoms and signs associated with any morbid process, and constituting together the picture of the disease. SEE ALSO: disease. [G. s., a running together, tumultuous concourse; (in med.) a concurrence of symptoms, fr. syn,… …   Medical dictionary

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