New explanation offered for symptoms of fragile X syndrome

Thursday, September 22, 2016 - 08:02 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.

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