Preimplantation genetic diagnosis of spinal muscular atrophy

Molecular Human Reproduction

Volumn 4, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 881-885

  Dreesen, J C F M ^a,b   Bras, M ^b   De Die Smulders, C ^a   Dumoulin, J C M ^b   Cobben, J M ^c   Evers, J L H ^b   Smeets, H J M ^a   Geraedts, J P M ^a  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Preimplantation genetic diagnosis; Single cell diagnosis; Spinal muscular atrophy; Survival motor neuron gene

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLASTOMERE; EMBRYO; GENE DELETION; GENETIC COUNSELING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MOTONEURON; PREIMPLANTATION EMBRYO; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL MUSCULAR ATROPHY;

ADULT; ALLELES; BASE SEQUENCE; BLASTOMERES; CYCLIC AMP RESPONSE ELEMENT-BINDING PROTEIN; DNA PRIMERS; EXONS; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HOMOZYGOTE; HUMANS; MALE; MUSCULAR ATROPHY, SPINAL; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREGNANCY; PREIMPLANTATION DIAGNOSIS; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; SEQUENCE DELETION;

EID: 0031663165     PISSN: 13609947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molehr/4.9.881     Document Type: Article

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