Detection of spinal muscular atrophy carriers by nested polymerase chain reaction of single sperm cells

Genetic Testing

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 18-23

  Yaron, Yuval ^a,b,c   Cohen, Tania ^b   Mey Raz, Nava ^b   Schwartz, Tamar ^b   Amit, Ami ^b,c   Malcov, Mira ^b  

^a TEL AVIV SOURASKY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b LIS MATERNITY HOSPITAL   (Israel)

^c TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RESTRICTION ENDONUCLEASE;

ALLELE; ALLELISM; ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL RECESSIVE DISORDER; CELL ISOLATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DRAI GENE; EXON; GENE; GENE DELETION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HETEROZYGOTE DETECTION; HOMOZYGOSITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY; SMN1 GENE; SMN2 GENE; SPERM; SPINAL MUSCULAR ATROPHY;

BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME DISORDERS; CYCLIC AMP RESPONSE ELEMENT-BINDING PROTEIN; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; EXONS; FEMALE; GENES, RECESSIVE; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMANS; MALE; MUSCULAR ATROPHY, SPINAL; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEQUENCE DELETION; SPERMATOZOA;

EID: 33645361728     PISSN: 10906576     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/gte.2006.10.18     Document Type: Article

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