Single cell detection of β-thalassaemia mutations using silver stained SSCP analysis: An application for preimplantation diagnosis

Molecular Human Reproduction

Volumn 3, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 693-698

  El Hashemite, Nisreen ^a   Wells, Dagan ^a   Delhanty, Joy D A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

thalassaemia; Nested PCR; Preimplantation diagnosis; SSCP analysis

Indexed keywords

COLORING AGENT; GLOBIN; PRIMER DNA; SILVER;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; BETA THALASSEMIA; BLASTOMERE; EXON; FEMALE; GENETICS; HETEROZYGOTE DETECTION; HOMOZYGOTE; HUMAN; INTRON; METHODOLOGY; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POINT MUTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; SINGLE STRAND CONFORMATION POLYMORPHISM;

ALLELES; BASE SEQUENCE; BETA-THALASSEMIA; BLASTOMERES; COLORING AGENTS; DNA PRIMERS; EXONS; FEMALE; GLOBINS; HETEROZYGOTE DETECTION; HOMOZYGOTE; HUMANS; INTRONS; MUTATION; POINT MUTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE-STRANDED CONFORMATIONAL; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; SILVER;

EID: 0031196688     PISSN: 13609947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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