Rights Act of 18663 and then in section 1 of the Fourteenth. Amendment.4 In doing so, Congress set aside the Dred Scott hold-. ing, and restored the traditional precepts of citizenship by birth.5. Based on the first sentence of section 1,6 the Court has held.
Grouped into 23 pairs, we get one set from our mother and the other from our father. One of these pairs of chromosomes determines if a person is male or female: Males (XY) get the X chromosome from the mother and the Y chromosome from the father. Females (XX) inherit one X chromosome from each parent. The Fragile X premutation can be passed silently down through generations in a family before a child is affected by the syndrome.
Nearly all cases of fragile X syndrome are caused by an alteration (mutation) in the FMR1 gene where a DNA segment, known as the CGG triplet repeat, is expanded. Normally, this DNA segment is repeated from 5 to about 40 times. In people with fragile X syndrome, however, the CGG segment is repeated more than 200 times.