Twin zygosity testing for medical purposes

American Journal of Medical Genetics

Volumn 77, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 412-414

  St Clair, David M ^a,b   St Clair, John B ^f   Swainson, Charles P ^c   Bamforth, Fiona ^d   Machin, Geoffrey A ^a,d,e  

^a MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

^b Human Genetics Unit   (United Kingdom)

^c ROYAL INFIRMARY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^e KAISER PERMANENTE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^f NONE

Author keywords

Monozygotic; Transplantation; Twinning; Twins; Zygosity

Indexed keywords

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DIZYGOTIC TWINS; DNA FINGERPRINTING; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INTERSTITIAL NEPHRITIS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TWIN ZYGOSITY; ZYGOSITY;

DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DNA FINGERPRINTING; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, ACUTE; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; NEPHRITIS, INTERSTITIAL; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC;

BASIDIOMYCOTA; CORTINARIUS SPECIOSISSIMUS; RAPHIA FRATER;

EID: 0032486148     PISSN: 01487299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-8628(19980605)77:5<412::AID-AJMG11>3.0.CO;2-L     Document Type: Article

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