Early Huntington disease prenatal diagnosis by maternal semiquantitative fluorescent-PCR

Neurology

Volumn 60, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 1214-1215

  Gonzalez Gonzalez M C ^a   Trujillo, M J ^a   Rodriguez de Alba M ^a   Ramos, C ^a  

^a Hospital UniversitarioFundación Jiménez Díaz   (Spain)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DNA ISOLATION; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; FETUS RISK; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; HUMAN; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; MATERNAL PLASMA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0037426408     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/01.WNL.0000056084.13096.8A     Document Type: Article

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