Fragile X syndrome is also an inherited genetic disease which is passed down from parents to their children. However this syndrome is more evident in boys than in girls.

Fragile X syndrome, or FXS, a leading genetic cause of autism, affects around one in 4,000 males and one in 6,000 females. Its symptoms include increased anxiety, intellectual disability ...

Fragile X Syndrome is a genetic disease due to a CGG trinucleotide expansion, called as full mutation (greater than 200 CGG repeats), in the fragile X mental retardation 1 gene locus Xq27.3. It ...

The City of Green Bay is joining communities across the globe in celebrating World Fragile X Day. This day brings attention to Fragile X syndrome, the most common inherited single-gene cause of autism ...

Individuals with fragile X syndrome, the most common inherited form of intellectual disability, often develop epilepsy, but so far the underlying causes are unknown. Researchers have now ...

Fragile X syndrome, the most common form of inherited intellectual disability, may be unfolding in brain cells even before birth, despite typically going undiagnosed until age 3 or later.

Veteran actor Govind Namdev appeared in the short film Fragile, which aims to create awareness around the Fragile X ...

Fragile X syndrome--the most common heritable cause of autism spectrum disorder--is something of a phantom. It interferes with the production of a protein critical to synapse formation during a ...

Fragile X syndrome occurs in approximately 1 in 4,000 males and 1 in 8,000 females. A premutation of the FMR1 gene is present in 1 in 800 males and 1 in 260 females.

Fragile X syndrome is the most frequent cause of intellectual disability in males, affecting one out of every 3,600 boys born. The syndrome can also cause autistic traits, such as social and ...