Variation of the CGG repeat at the fragile X site results in genetic instability: Resolution of the Sherman paradox

Identification of a gene (FMR-1) containing a CGG repeat coincident with a breakpoint cluster region exhibiting length variation in fragile X syndrome

Annemieke J.M.H. Verkerk, Maura Pieretti, James S. Sutcliffe et al. · Cell · 1991 · 3.5K citations

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Instability of a 550-Base Pair DNA Segment and Abnormal Methylation in Fragile X Syndrome

I. Oberlé, F. Rousseau, Dominique Heitz et al. · Science · 1991 · 1.5K citations

Life Sciences, Genetics, Molecular Genetics +16

Absence of expression of the FMR-1 gene in fragile X syndrome

Maura Pieretti, Ying‐Hui Fu, Stephen T. Warren et al. · Cell · 1991 · 1.5K citations

Life Sciences, Genetics, Molecular Genetics +11

DNA typing and genetic mapping with trimeric and tetrameric tandem repeats.

Al Edwards, Andrew B. Civitello, Holly A. Hammond et al. · PubMed · 1991 · 1.2K citations

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Mapping of DNA Instability at the Fragile X to a Trinucleotide Repeat Sequence P(CCG) <i>n</i>

Eric J. Kremer, Melanie Pritchard, Michael Lynch et al. · Science · 1991 · 923 citations

Life Sciences, Genetics, Molecular Genetics +11