Prenatal diagnosis in merosin-deficient congenital muscular dystrophy

Neuromuscular Disorders

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 176-179

  Naom, Isam ^a   Sewry, Caroline ^a   D'Alessandro, Mariella ^a   Topaloglu, Haluk ^b   Ferlini, Alessandra ^a   Wilson, Lesley ^a   Dubowitz, Victor ^a   Muntoni, Francesco ^a  

^a HAMMERSMITH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b HACETTEPE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Merosin deficient; Muscular dystrophy; Prenatal

Indexed keywords

LAMININ; MEROSIN;

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CONTAMINATION; DISEASE CARRIER; FEMALE; FETUS; GENETIC LINKAGE; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INDUCED ABORTION; MUSCLE; MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEFICIENCY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; TROPHOBLAST;

ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; BIOPSY; CHORIONIC VILLI SAMPLING; DNA, SATELLITE; FEMALE; GENETIC MARKERS; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LAMININ; MUSCULAR DYSTROPHIES; PREGNANCY; TROPHOBLASTS;

EID: 0030943859     PISSN: 09608966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0960-8966(97)00448-3     Document Type: Article

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