Mental Retardation, X-Linked 23
Clinical Features
Lehrke (1974) described a nonspecific form of X-linked mental retardation in a large kindred designated family 1. The pedigree was updated by Howard-Peebles and Roberts (1984). Affected males had lower verbal IQs than performance IQs. Several of the affected males had performance IQs above 80; however, because of the lower (12.3 points on average) verbal IQs, they were considered retarded.
MappingGregg et al. (1996) mapped the gene for this form of X-linked mental retardation, designated MRX23, to Xq23-q24 by linkage studies in the large kindred (family 1) of Lehrke (1974). Multipoint linkage analysis gave a maximum lod score of 6.7 between markers DXS1220 and DXS424. Obligate carrier females were considered unaffected; however, IQs were not determined for these individuals.
Mapping to the same region of Xq are other families of nonspecific X-linked mental retardation, designated MRX27 (Gedeon et al., 1996), MRX35 (300957), and MRX80 (Verot et al., 2003).