A new study reports large-scale systematic resequencing of the coding exons of the X chromosome in males with X-linked mental retardation (XLMR), illustrating the challenge of sorting through large amounts of benign variation in order to identify disease-causing sequence changes.
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Nelson, D., Gibbs, R. X-cess of variants in XLMR. Nat Genet 41, 510–512 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1038/ng0509-510
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