Preimplantation genetic diagnosis of Marfan syndrome with the use of fluorescent polymerase chain reaction and the automated laser fluorescence DNA sequencer

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 71, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 163-166

  Sermon, Karen ^b   Lissens, Willy ^a   Messiaen, Ludwine ^b   Bonduelle, Maryse ^a   Vandervorst, Mark ^a   Van Steirteghem, André ^a   Liebaers, Inge ^a  

^a VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Fluorescent PCR; Marfan syndrome; Preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD)

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOFLUORESCENCE; BLASTOMERE; CASE REPORT; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; EMBRYO; EPSTEIN BARR VIRUS; FEMALE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HUMAN; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; LASER; LYMPHOBLAST; MALE; MARFAN SYNDROME; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; BLASTOMERES; CELL TRANSFORMATION, VIRAL; FEMALE; HERPESVIRUS 4, HUMAN; HUMANS; MALE; MARFAN SYNDROME; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREIMPLANTATION DIAGNOSIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE;

EID: 0032919952     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0015-0282(98)00412-9     Document Type: Article

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