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The most well-known of these is Fragile X syndrome, a neurodevelopmental disorder associated with syndromic facial features, autism, intellectual disabilities, and seizures. However, CGG expansions of different sizes also confer a risk of neuropsychiatric and neurodegenerative disorders throughout the lifespan, through distinct molecular mechanisms. Although Fragile X syndrome is associated with downstream synaptic deficits and neuronal hyperexcitability, work in the past decade has demonstrated that both the causative FMR1 trinucleotide repeat expansion and FMRP itself play important roles in nuclear function and regulation, including non-canonical nucleic acid structure formation and chromatin dynamics. These effects are critical to cellular pathophysiology, although the full extent of their contribution to clinical phenotypes is only just emerging. 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