Medical Genetics News

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There's adequate research data to support population screening of women of childbearing age for fragile X syndrome-the most common inherited cause of cognitive impairment, according to a report in the July issue of Genetics in Medicine , the official peer-reviewed journal of The American College of Medical Genetics.

There's adequate research data to support population screening of women of childbearing age for fragile X syndromea 'the most common inherited cause of cognitive impairment, according to a report in the July issue of Genetics in Medicine , the official peer-reviewed journal of The American College of Medical Genetics.

Men who carry a faulty BRCA2 gene have a 1 in 15 chance of developing breast cancer by the time they reach 70, suggests the largest study of its kind, published online in the Journal of Medical Genetics.

Dr. James P. Evans is editor-in-chief of the journal Genetics in Medicine, the official journal of the American College of Medical Genetics, and the Bryson Distinguished Professor of genetics and medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.