New Clues into the Underlying Dynamics of Fragile X Syndrome (1 of 1) (VIDEO)

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Carnegie's Allan Spradling and Ethan Greenblatt explain their work on the relationship between defects in an egg cell's ability to manufacture large proteins and fragile X syndrome. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Aug. 17, 2018, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by Ethan J. Greenblatt at Howard Hughes Medical Institute in Baltimore, MD, and colleagues was titled, "Fragile X mental retardation 1 gene enhances the translation of large autism-related proteins."

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