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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Feb 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Tenn Acad Sci. 1998 Jul-Oct;73(3-4):87–99.

Table 2.

Chromosome fragile site data from cells grown in Medium 199 or RPMI 1640 with fluorodeoxyuridine from mentally retarded males.

Chromosome Number Medium 1991
RPMI 1640 with FUdR1
Fragile Sites2 Expression of Fragile Sites (%) Fragile Sites3 Expression of Fragile Sites (%) χ2
  1 24   8.0   87   7.8   0.00
  2 18   6.0 104   9.3   2.92
  3 81 26.9 232 20.8     4.88a
  4   9   3.0   47   4.2   0.63
  5 15   5.0   70   6.3   0.48
  6 12   4.0   98   8.8     6.92b
  7 18   6.0   85   7.6   0.70
  8   8   2.7   31   2.8   0.01
  9 11   3.6   35   3.1   0.07
10 13   4.3   30   2.7   1.64
11 10   3.3   31   2.8   0.10
12   8   2.7   28   2.5   0.00
13   6   2.0   18   1.6   0.04
14   6   2.0   31   2.8   0.30
15   3   1.0   16   1.4   0.09
16 42 14.0   86   7.7   10.58b
17   2   0.7   14   1.2   0.30
18   5   1.7   22   2.0   0.01
19   0   0.0     9   0.8   1.33
20   1   0.3     7   0.6   0.03
21   0   0.0     5   0.4   0.38
22   1   0.3     5   0.4   0.05
X   8   2.7   26   2.3   0.01
Y   0   0.0     1   0.1   0.50
1

5,096 cells grown in Medium 199 were analyzed from 100 patients; 4,738 cells grown in RPMI with fluorodeoxyuridine (FUdR) were analyzed from 165 patients, χ2 is Chi-square.

2

Total fragile sites = 301.

3

Total fragile sites = 1,118.

a

P < 0.05.

b

P < 0.01, two-tailed test.