Genetic Diseases: X linked Dominant Diseases

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Fragile X syndrome

This is a disorder characterised by mental and learning disabilities.
It is caused by a triplet expansion of the CGG repeat when it is repeated more than 200 times.
Triplet expansions are also known as dynamic mutations caused by slipped mispairing mutations during DNA replication
The number of repeats

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