New explanation offered for symptoms of fragile X syndrome
Tuesday, September 20, 2016 - 16:31
in Health & Medicine
Until recently, scientists thought they understood one of the underlying causes of fragile X syndrome, the most common inherited cause of intellectual disability in the United States. The syndrome, which is associated with autism, was believed to be linked primarily to overactivity in a molecular pathway in the brain. But then, in 2014, two large-scale, […]