Carrier detection and prenatal molecular diagnosis in a duchenne muscular dystrophy family without any affected relative available

Annales de Genetique

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 149-153

  Alcantara M A ^a,d   Garcia Cavazos R ^b   Hernandez U E ^a   Gonzalez Del Angel A ^a   Carnevale, A ^a   Orozco, L ^a,c  

^a Laboratorio De Biología Molecular   (Mexico)

^b INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PERINATOLOGÍA   (Mexico)

^c Programa Interinstitucional De Biomedicina Molecular CICATA IPN   (Mexico)

^d UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy; Prenatal Molecular Diagnosis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALLELE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DUCHENNE MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY; FEMALE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC LINKAGE; HETEROZYGOTE; HETEROZYGOTE DETECTION; HUMAN; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; Y CHROMOSOME;

EID: 0034755465     PISSN: 00033995     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-3995(01)01084-X     Document Type: Article

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