DRS. FRY AND USDIN COLLABORATE ON NEW BOOK
CFXF grantee Dr. Michael Fry of the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology and one of our Scientific advisors,
Dr. Karen Usdin of the National Institutes of Health, have recently edited a book together entitled "Human Nucleotide
Expansion Disorders" published by Springer-Verlag. Fragile X Syndrome is, of course, a human nucleotide expansion
disorder since it results from a dynamic expansion of a CGG-repeat in the FMR1 gene. The book consists of a series of
chapters on the different repeat expansion diseases each written by a different expert or set of experts in the field. It
includes a chapter on Fragile X syndrome and FXTAS written by Drs. Flora Tassone and Paul Hagerman of the School
of Medicine at the University of California, Davis. A chapter on the neglected Fragile X mutations, FRAXE and FRAXF
was written by Drs. David Nelson and Yanghong Gu of Baylor College of Medicine. Drs. Fry and Usdin authored an
introduction to the field and a postscript on future therapeutic prospects. The book can be purchased on amazon.com.