USC researchers received a national grant that will fund two new studies relating to fragile X. New questions and discoveries ...

Scientists have created a new therapeutic approach for testing fragile X syndrome, which is the most common genetic cause of autism spectrum disorder (ASD). This method aims to alter a type of neural ...

Research on fragile X syndrome, the most common inherited cause of mental retardation, has focused mostly on how the genetic defect alters the functioning of neurons in the brain. A new study focusing ...

For individuals living with fragile X syndrome — a common genetic disorder that is correlated with autism, causes intellectual disability and more frequently affects male individuals — anxiety, ...

Philadelphia, June 12, 2025 – Researchers have developed an innovative new nanopore sequencing assay to identify carriers of fragile X syndrome (FXS), the leading cause of monogenic autism spectrum ...

Mutations in FMR1, the gene encoding fragile X messenger ribonucleoprotein 1 (FMRP), located at Xq27.3 and discovered in 1991, are the leading single-gene causes of autism and intellectual disability.

March 16, 2010 (Updated March 18, 2010) — Chromosomal microarray analysis (CMA) is at least 3 times more effective at identifying genetic abnormalities in autism spectrum disorder (ASD) than other ...

Quralis Corp. has entered into a number of agreements with the aim of advancing the treatment of fragile X syndrome, a genetic condition caused by a mutation of a single gene – fragile X messenger ...

Friday is National Fragile X Syndrome Awareness Day. Here are a few facts about this interesting syndrome and the individuals it affects: — FXS is a genetic disorder in which there is missing or ...

Les Laboratoires Servier said that it agreed to acquire a potential treatment for Fragile X syndrome (FXS), the most common genetic cause of autism spectrum disorder (ASD), from its original developer ...