Explain more pronounced progressive mental deficiency in successive generations of fragile X syndrome
What will be an ideal response?
When a women transmits the fragile X mental retardation gene (FMR1), the number of CGG repeats in the transmitted X chromosome is amplified during oogenesis, and her gametes contain more repeats than she has in her own somatic cells.
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a. Extremely careful handling b. Increasing vitamin D intake c. Revascularization d. Containment and motion therapy
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1. Conventional 2. Preconventional 3. Social contract 4. Postconventional
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