Prenatal diagnosis in monozygotic twins with Down syndrome who had different phenotypes

Prenatal Diagnosis

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 552-554

  Grynberg, M ^a   Graesslin, O ^a,c   Teyssedre, J ^a   Quereux, C ^a   Gaillard, D ^b   Carre Pigeon F ^b  

^a REIMS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^b HÔPITAL MAISON BLANCHE   (France)

^c Institut Mère Enfant Alix de Champagne   (France)

Author keywords

Down syndrome; Environmental factors; Epigenetics; Monozygotic twin pregnancy; Phenotype discordance

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMNIOCENTESIS; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CASE REPORT; CYTOGENETICS; DOWN SYNDROME; FACE DYSMORPHIA; FEMALE; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; GESTATIONAL AGE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; KARYOTYPE; MALE; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; NECK CYST; PHENOTYPE; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRISOMY;

ABORTION, INDUCED; DISEASES IN TWINS; DOWN SYNDROME; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PHENOTYPE; PREGNANCY; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 34347235468     PISSN: 01973851     EISSN: 10970223     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pd.1711     Document Type: Article

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