A Turner syndrome woman with a ring X chromosome [45,X/46,X,r(X)(p22.3q27)] whose child also had a ring X chromosome

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 67, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 576-579

  Uehara, Shigeki ^a,b   Nata, Masayuki ^b   Obara, Yasuhiko ^b   Niinuma, Takenari ^b   Funato, Tadao ^b   Yajima, Akira ^b  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology ^*

Author keywords

fertility; polymorphism; Ring X chromosome; short tandem repeat; Turner syndrome

Indexed keywords

HYPOXANTHINE PHOSPHORIBOSYLTRANSFERASE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CELL VIABILITY; DNA POLYMORPHISM; FEMALE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE LOCATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; KARYOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; TANDEM REPEAT; TURNER SYNDROME; X CHROMOSOME;

EID: 0031029836     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0015-0282(97)80091-X     Document Type: Article

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