Prenatal detection of an interstitial deletion in 4p15 in a fetus with an increased nuchal skin fold measurement

Fetal Diagnosis and Therapy

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 58-63

  South, Sarah T ^a   Corson, Virginia L ^a   McMichael, Joseph L ^a   Blakemore, Karin J ^a   Stetten, Gail ^a,b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b DEPARTMENT OF PATHOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Deletion 4p15 w; FISH; Nuchal fold; Nuchal translucency

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMNIOCENTESIS; ANEUPLOIDY; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CASE REPORT; CHROMOSOME BANDING PATTERN; CHROMOSOME DELETION 4; CLINICAL FEATURE; DOWN SYNDROME; FEMALE; FETUS MONITORING; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC COUNSELING; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; KARYOTYPE 46,XX; KARYOTYPING; PATIENT REFERRAL; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKINFOLD THICKNESS;

CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 4; CYTOGENETIC ANALYSIS; GENE DELETION; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; KARYOTYPING; NUCHAL TRANSLUCENCY MEASUREMENT; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS;

EID: 11444256551     PISSN: 10153837     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000081371     Document Type: Article

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