Sequential immunocytogenetics, molecular cytogenetics and transmission electron microscopy of microspread meiosis I oocytes from a human fetal carrier of an unbalanced translocation

Chromosoma

Volumn 106, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 293-303

  Barlow, Andrew L ^a   Hultén, Maj A ^a  

^a BIRMINGHAM HEARTLANDS HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHROMOSOME 18P; CHROMOSOME 21; CHROMOSOME 22; CHROMOSOME PAIRING; CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION; CYTOGENETICS; FEMALE; FETUS; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MEIOSIS; OOCYTE; PACHYTENE; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; TELOMERE; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ZYGOTE;

ADULT; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 18; CYTOGENETICS; EMBRYO; FEMALE; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; MEIOSIS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; OOCYTES; PREGNANCY; TRANSLOCATION, GENETIC;

EID: 0030658859     PISSN: 00095915     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004120050250     Document Type: Article

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