A widely applicable strategy for single cell genotyping of β-thalassaemia mutations using DGGE analysis: Application to preimplantation genetic diagnosis

Prenatal Diagnosis

Volumn 19, Issue 13, 1999, Pages 1209-1216

  Vrettou, Christina ^a   Palmer, Giles ^b   Kanavakis, Emmanuel ^a   Tzetis, Maria ^a   Antoniadi, Thalia ^a   Mastrominas, Minas ^b   Traeger Synodinos, Joanne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b Embryogenesis Centre for Reproductive and Fertility Studies   (Greece)

Author keywords

thalassaemia; DGGE analysis; PCR amplification; Preimplantation genetic diagnosis

Indexed keywords

BETA GLOBIN;

ACCURACY; ALLELE; AMNION CELL; ARTICLE; BETA THALASSEMIA; BLASTOMERE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENATURATION; ELECTROPHORESIS; EMBRYO; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GENE MUTATION; GENOTYPE; HEMOGLOBINOPATHY; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LYMPHOCYTE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY;

BETA-THALASSEMIA; BLASTOMERES; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; DNA PRIMERS; ELECTROPHORESIS; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREGNANCY; PREIMPLANTATION DIAGNOSIS;

EID: 0033378064     PISSN: 01973851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0223(199912)19:13<1209::AID-PD722>3.0.CO;2-6     Document Type: Article

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