Posts Tagged ‘Genetics of Learning Disability’
Mutations in X Chromosome Cause Make People Retarded
Written by WTJ on January 31, 2008 – 11:32 pm -Scientists achieve major genetics breakthrough
University of Adelaide geneticist Dr Jozef Gecz and a team of Belgium and UK scientists have achieved a major breakthrough in discovering the causes of intellectual disability.
Dr Gecz, a senior researcher who is based at the Women’s and Children’s Hospital in Adelaide, has collaborated with an international research team to reveal that various mutations of a small part of the X chromosome lead to mental retardation.
Man has better chance of being a retard.
Tags: Dr Jozef Gecz, genetics, Genetics of Learning Disability, GOLD, HSD17B10, HUWE1, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, mutations, University of Adelaide, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, X chromosome
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