“…Autistic features may also occur in patients with fragile X mental retardation (Gurling et al, 1997). There are nine published cases of autistic disorder or autistic type behaviors in patients with cytogenetic abnormalities involving chromosome 2q37 (Burd et al, 1988;Stein et al, 1992;Conrad et al, 1995;Ghaziuddin and Burmeister, 1999;Borg et al, 2000;Wolff et al, 2000). In these cases the size of the deletion was not determined by molecular methods.…”