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A 5-Year-Old Male Presents with Mental Retardation and Is Diagnosed

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A 5-year-old male presents with mental retardation and is diagnosed with Fragile X syndrome. When the parents ask what caused this, the nurse practitioner responds with:


A) translocation of the Philadelphia chromosome.
B) nondisjunction of chromosome 21.
C) expansion of cytosine-guanine-guanine (CGG) repeats 200.
D) mutation in the transmembrane conductance regulator.

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