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Is there a test available for FG Syndrome?
The answer is both yes, and no...
Within the past decade, scientific researchers around the world have identified several areas on the X chromosone where the FG Syndrome phenotype genes are most likely located. These areas have been referred to as FGS1, FGS2, FGS3, etc. In the fall of 2006, it was announced by doctors at the Greenwood Genetics Center that the FGS1 gene has been isolated and several families have been identified as carrying the FGS1 gene mutation.
So while there is currently a blood test available for the FGS1 phenotype, it is the consensus of major researchers that more families will "land" in one of the other gene locations. Thus a negative test for FGS1 does not suggest that the family does not have FG Syndrome. Scientific researchers are reportedly close to isolating some of the genes at the other locations. Once the other genes carrying mutations that result in the FG Syndrome phenotype are identified, testing will be availabe for them as well.
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