Noninvasive prenatal diagnosis of β-thalassaemia using individual fetal erythroblasts isolated from maternal blood after enrichment

Prenatal Diagnosis

Volumn 27, Issue 13, 2007, Pages 1228-1232

  Kolialexi, A ^a   Vrettou, C ^a,b   Traeger Synodinos, J ^a   Burgemeister, R ^c   Papantoniou, N ^a   Kanavakis, E ^a   Antsaklis, A ^a   Mavrou, A ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^b AGHIA SOPHIA CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^c PALM Microlaser Technologies   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

thalassaemia; Noninvasive prenatal diagnosis; NRBCs; Single cell detachment

Indexed keywords

BETA GLOBIN; GENE PRODUCT;

ARTICLE; BETA THALASSEMIA; CELL ISOLATION; CELL SELECTION; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA POLYMORPHISM; ERYTHROBLAST; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS CELL; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC RISK; GENOTYPE; HETEROZYGOTE; HOMOZYGOSITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LASER MICRODISSECTION; MATERNAL BLOOD; METHODOLOGY; MICROSATELLITE MARKER; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; POLYMORPHIC LOCUS; PREGNANT WOMAN; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

BETA-THALASSEMIA; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; DNA FINGERPRINTING; ERYTHROBLASTS; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; GLOBINS; HUMANS; MATERNAL-FETAL EXCHANGE; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, FIRST; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS;

EID: 37349084504     PISSN: 01973851     EISSN: 10970223     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pd.1881     Document Type: Article

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