Recognizing fragile X as the most common inherited cause of mental retardation and as a powerful research model for other disorders, urging increased funding for research, and for other purposes.

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States that the Congress: (1) recognizes the devastating impact of fragile X on thousands of Americans; (2) recognizes the leadership of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, the National Institute of Mental Health, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in research efforts to find a cure for fragile X and related disorders; (3) calls on these and other sources of Federal and private research funds to enhance and increase their efforts and commitments to fragile X research; and (4) calls on medical schools and other health educators, medical societies and associations, and Federal, State, and local health care facilities to learn, teach, and promote awareness of the incidence, causes, symptoms, effects, and treatment of fragile X and support screening of newborns for fragile X to permit early intervention and treatment.

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  Introduced in House · EN · 5 April 2000

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