Allele drop-out can occur in alleles differing by a single nucleotide and is not alleviated by preamplification or minor template increments

Genetic Testing

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 351-355

  Hahn, Sinuhe ^a   Garvin, Alex M ^a   Di Naro, Edoardo ^a   Holzgreve, Wolfgang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLOBIN;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; BETA THALASSEMIA; BLOOD; DNA TEMPLATE; EVALUATION; FEMALE; FETOMATERNAL TRANSFUSION; GENETICS; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTE; MALE; METHODOLOGY; POINT MUTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; REPRODUCIBILITY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ALLELES; ARTIFACTS; BETA-THALASSEMIA; EVALUATION STUDIES; FEMALE; GLOBINS; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTES; MALE; MATERNAL-FETAL EXCHANGE; POINT MUTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREGNANCY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TEMPLATES, GENETIC;

EID: 0032242849     PISSN: 10906576     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/gte.1998.2.351     Document Type: Article

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