Determination of twin zygosity using a commercially available STR analysis of 15 unlinked loci and the gender-determining marker amelogenin - A preliminary report

Human Reproduction

Volumn 21, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 2175-2179

  Yang, Ming Jie ^a   Tzeng, Cheng Hwai ^b   Tseng, Jen Yu ^a   Huang, Ching Ying ^a  

^a TAIPEI VETERANS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Chorionicity; Placenta; Short tandem repeat; Twins; Zygosity

Indexed keywords

AMELOGENIN; GENOMIC DNA;

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHORION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELIVERY; DNA EXTRACTION; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GENE LOCUS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INCIDENCE; INFERTILITY THERAPY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MALE; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; NEWBORN; PLACENTA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREDICTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEX DETERMINATION; SHORT TANDEM REPEAT; TWIN PREGNANCY; TWIN ZYGOSITY; UMBILICAL CORD BLOOD;

EID: 33747884327     PISSN: 02681161     EISSN: 14602350     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/humrep/del133     Document Type: Article

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