Multiple genetic diagnoses from single cells using multiplex PCR: Reliability and allele dropout

Prenatal Diagnosis

Volumn 18, Issue 13, 1998, Pages 1413-1421

  Findlay, Ian ^a   Matthews, Paul ^a   Quirke, Phil ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Multiplex PCR; Preimplantation genetic diagnosis; Quantitative PCR; Sexing; Trisomy

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ARTICLE; BLASTOMERE; CHEEK; CORNEA CELL; EMBRYO; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HETEROZYGOSITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY;

ALLELES; BLASTOMERES; CHEEK; CORNEA; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMANS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0032414656     PISSN: 01973851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0223(199812)18:13<1413::AID-PD496>3.0.CO;2-1     Document Type: Article

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