Carrier Related Issues: Learning How to Self-Regulate to Support Your Child This conference is designed specifically for Fragile X carriers and their partners to learn how Fragile X may impact individuals and their families. The information [...]
Premutation Carriers: FXAND, FXPOI, FXTAS and Everything In Between! The National Fragile X Foundation Kansas Chapter is hosting its 7th New Directions in Fragile X Conference that is going to be all about FX carriers! [...]
The Modifiers of Fragile X-Associated Disorders (FX-MOD) study is trying to answer the question, why do some people develop tremor and balance issues and others do not?
Pictured Above: Fragile X professionals from around the world taking a mud bath, and making the sign of the X, prior to a swim in the Dead Sea, the lowest point on earth at 1,388 [...]
University of Maryland Hello, My name is Morgan Thomas and I am a second year graduate student in the University of Maryland School of Medicine Masters of Genetic Counseling Program. [...]
Why is there so much variability among male and female Fragile X carriers? There are a number of factors involved. Because the Fragile X gene is X-linked, gender plays a big role in determining who might show symptoms. Male premutation carriers, because they have only one X chromosome, are much more commonly affected by FXTAS than are female carriers.
