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Folate treatment of a boy with fragile‐X syndrome
Author(s) -
WEBB T.,
CRAWLEY P.,
BUNDEY S.
Publication year - 1990
Publication title -
journal of intellectual disability research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.941
H-Index - 104
eISSN - 1365-2788
pISSN - 0964-2633
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2788.1990.tb01516.x
Subject(s) - fragile x syndrome , pediatrics , fragile x , medicine , psychology , psychiatry , biology , genetics , gene
. A severely behaviourally disturbed three year old boy with the fragile‐X syndrome was treated wich intermittent folate therapy over a period of 2 years. No behavioural improvement was noted in this time but variations between cultural regimes for the successful detection of the fragile‐X marker were observed.