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REPRODUCTIVE SCIENCES
Volume 19, Issue 11, Pages 1226-1231Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
DOI: 10.1177/1933719112446074
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FMR1; female infertility; diminished ovarian reserve; trinucleotide repeats; epidemiology; FXPOI
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- Eunice K. Shriver National Center for Child Health and Human Development at the National Institutes of Health [R03 HD052768]
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Introduction: Fragile X premutations are associated with primary ovarian insufficiency when the patient presents with amenorrhea, but the fragile X mental retardation 1 (FMR1) CGG repeat count among cycling women with low ovarian reserve (diminished ovarian reserve [DOR]) is not yet established. Patients and Methods: Sixty-two infertile DOR patients were recruited from 4 US private and academic fertility centers. Results: The prevalence of 35-44 FMR1 CGG repeats was 14.5%. Compared with the general female population estimate from the literature, infertile women with DOR were more likely to have 35-44 FMR1 CGG repeats (14.5% and 3.9%, respectively, P = .0003). Similar findings were noted by 5-repeat bandwidth: 35-39 CGG repeats (9.7% DOR vs 3.2% comparison, P = .012) or 40-44 CGG repeats (4.8% DOR vs 0.7% comparison, P = .024). Conclusions: These data suggest that CGG repeats of 35-44 may be markedly overrepresented in women with DOR, whereas the current FMR1 reference range indicates that there is no clinical phenotype with <45 CGG repeats.
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