Question 20

(Multiple Choice)

A genomic condition that may be responsible for some forms of fragile -X syndrome, as well as Huntington disease, involves _.


A) plasmids inserted into the FMR -1 gene
B) multiple breakpoints fairly evenly dispersed along the X chromosome
C) single translocations in the X chromosome
D) various lengths of trinucleotide repeats
E) multiple inversions in the X chromosome

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