Fluorescent PCR and automated fragment analysis for the clinical application of preimplantation genetic diagnosis of myotonic dystrophy (Steinert's disease)

Molecular Human Reproduction

Volumn 4, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 791-796

  Sermon, K ^a   De Vos, A ^a   Van De Velde, H ^a   Seneca, S ^a   Lissens, W ^a   Joris, H ^a   Vandervorst, M ^a   Van Steirteghem, A ^a   Liebaers, I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LOUVAIN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Automated fragment analysis; Fluorescent PCR; Myotonic dystrophy; Preimplanation genetic diagnosis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOANALYSIS; BLASTOMERE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MYOTONIC DYSTROPHY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREIMPLANTATION EMBRYO; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0031872118     PISSN: 13609947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molehr/4.8.791     Document Type: Article

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