Abstract
This study compares fragile X expression in peripheral blood lymphocyte cultures with expression in lymphoblastoid cell lines established from 23 individuals from families in which the fragile X is segregating. Most patients expressed the fragile X in lymphoblastoid cell lines treated with FUdR under optimal conditions at approximately the same frequency as in peripheral blood cultures from the same individual. No fragile X cells were seen in the lymphoblastoid cell lines from three phenotypically normal males who had transmitted the fragile X gene to offspring or in the lines from three phenotypically normal obligate-carrier females, all of whom were also negative in peripheral blood cultures. Two individuals, however, who expressed at high levels in peripheral blood lymphocytes expressed in lymphoblastoid cells only at low levels or not at all. We describe the considerations needed for the consistent demonstration of the fragile X in lymphoblastoid cell lines.
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