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DALLAS — A genetic
pioneer insists women in fami
lies with a history of mental re
tardation should be tested for an
elusive genetic abnormality that
may be responsible for 25 per
cent of mental retardation
found in males.
Dr. Patricia Howard-Peebles,
director of the Cytogenetics
Laboratory and a professor at
the University of Texas Health
Science Center, said it is impor
tant for women under 20 with a
family history of mental retarda
tion to be tested to determine
whether they are carriers of the
“fragile X” chromosome.
The disorder occurs on the X
chromosome, one of the chro
mosomes that determines the
sex of a child.
Boys have the chromosome
pairing X-Y and girls X-X. If a
girl has a fragile X chromosome,
retardation usually fails to mate
rialize because she has a back-up
normal X chromosome, which is
not the case with boys.
However, Dr. Howard-
Peebles, one of the leading au
thorities on fragile X-linked
mental retardation, admits it is
not known what the fragile X
site on chromosomes is.
Although the condition
appears predominantly in
males, and affected females are
considered carriers, researchers
have recently discovered some
female carriers are slightly re
tarded.
“We like to test a retarded
male family member first,” she
said. “If he is positive for fragile
X, we say the family has it. If he
is negative, we like to test
another affected male before we
rule it out. If both are negative,
we conclude that the family
doesn’t have fragile X-linked re
tardation.”
A female carrier should be
tested while she is young be
cause once she reaches the age
of 25, the fragile site usually fails
to show up in tests.
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oil glut is lulling the public into a
false sense of energy security at
the expense of vitally needed so
lar development, the chairman
of the American Solar Energy
Society warns.
“We have undoubtedly hit a
bump in the road,” Francis De-
Winter said Tuesday at a Solar
Technologies Conference and
International Exposition. “The
oversupply of oil on the interna
tional market has brought a tem
porary, if not misguided, sense
of energy security;”
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tion budget cuts hinder enthu
siasm for solar energy, pointing
out the proposed budget allo
cated $100 million for solar
energy research for 1983, a
drop from $570 million in 1980.
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few in Washington are under
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ment,” he said.
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homes equipped with
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mated $400 million, amountis
to a displacement of 1.5
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estimated $80 billion a year,
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