Fragile X Females and Psychiatric Disorders

Abstract

Psychiatric and developmental difficulties in 17 young females with the fragile X mutation were compared with a non-fragile X female group in a controlled study reported from the Department of Psychiatry, Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and the Kennedy Institute, Baltimore, MD.

Keywords

• fragile x mutation
• non-fragile x female group
• stereotypy/habit disorders