OVERLAPPING SUBMICROSCOPIC DELETIONS IN XQ28 IN 2 UNRELATED BOYS WITH DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDERS - IDENTIFICATION OF A GENE NEAR FRAXE

Two unrelated boys are described with delay in development and submicroscopic deletions in Xq28, near FRAXE. Molecular diagnosis to exclude the fragile X (FRAXA) syndrome used the direct probe pfxa3, together with a control probe pS8 (DXS296), against PstI restriction digests of DNA. Deletions were detected initially by the control probe pS8, which is an anonymous fragment subcloned from YAC 539, within 1 Mb distal to FRAXA. Further molecular analyses determined that the maximum size of the deletion is