Development and application of a real-time quantitative PCR for prenatal detection of fetal α0-Thalassemia from maternal plasma

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1075, Issue , 2006, Pages 103-107

  Tungwiwat, Warunee ^a   Fucharoen, Supan ^a   Fucharoen, Goonnapa ^a   Ratanasiri, Thawalwong ^b   Sanchaisuriya, Kanokwan ^a  

^a KHON KAEN UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^b KHON KAEN UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

Author keywords

Fetal DNA; Maternal plasma; Noninvasive prenatal diagnosis

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA; HEMOGLOBIN H; PRIMER DNA;

ALPHA THALASSEMIA; AMPLICON; CALIBRATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DILUTION CURVE; FEMALE; FETUS HYDROPS; FLUORESCENCE ANALYSIS; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE DELETION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOTYPE; GESTATION PERIOD; HETEROZYGOTE; HOMOZYGOTE; HUMAN; MATERNAL PLASMA; MAXIMUM ALLOWABLE CONCENTRATION; MOTHER FETUS RELATIONSHIP; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; PREGNANT WOMAN; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; QUANTITATIVE GENETICS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 33749560661     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1368.013     Document Type: Conference Paper

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