Prenatal diagnosis of spinal muscular atrophy by direct molecular analysis: Efficacy and potential pitfalls

Genetic Testing

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 255-258

  Milunsky, Jeff M ^a   Cheney, Susan M ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMNION FLUID CYTOLOGY; ARTICLE; CHORION VILLUS SAMPLING; CONTAMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FETUS; GENE DELETION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; SPINAL MUSCULAR ATROPHY;

AMNIOCENTESIS; CHORIONIC VILLI SAMPLING; CYCLIC AMP RESPONSE ELEMENT-BINDING PROTEIN; EXONS; FEMALE; GENETIC SCREENING; HUMANS; MALE; MUSCULAR ATROPHY, SPINAL; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; PREGNANCY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEQUENCE DELETION;

EID: 0032859520     PISSN: 10906576     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/109065799316554     Document Type: Article

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