Prenatal determination of a variable number of tandem repeats in intron 40 of the von Willebrand factor gene from maternal peripheral blood using the polymerase chain reaction

Human Heredity

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 201-204

  Ni, Xingqun ^a   Guo, Jingyuan ^a   Xia, Jiahui ^b   Li, Luyun ^b  

^a SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Fetal VNTR; Maternal peripheral blood; Prenatal detection

Indexed keywords

ELECTROLYTE; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; RESTRICTION ENDONUCLEASE; VON WILLEBRAND FACTOR;

ARTICLE; CHILDBIRTH; FEMALE; GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC DISORDER; HUMAN; INTRON; MATERNAL BLOOD; NORMAL HUMAN; PATERNITY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; SEX DETERMINATION; VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEAT;

EID: 0033982756     PISSN: 00015652     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000022915     Document Type: Article

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