Diagnosis of Sickle Cell Anemia and β-Thalassemia with Enzymatically Amplified DNA and Nonradioactive Allele-Specific Oligonucleotide Probes

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 319, Issue 9, 1988, Pages 537-541

  Saiki, Randall K ^a   Chang, Chu an ^a   Levenson, Corey H ^a   Warren, Tina C ^a   Boehm, Corinne D ^a   Kazazian, Haig H ^a   Erlich, Henry A ^a  

^a University School of Medicine ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; DNA POLYMERASE; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE;

ALLELE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; GENETIC ENGINEERING; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SICKLE CELL ANEMIA; THALASSEMIA;

ALLELES; ANEMIA, SICKLE CELL; COLORIMETRY; DNA; DNA-DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; FEMALE; FETAL DISEASES; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GLOBINS; HORSERADISH PEROXIDASE; HUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THALASSEMIA;

EID: 0023753018     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM198809013190903     Document Type: Article

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