Prenatal diagnosis of a fetus with 7q11.23 deletion detected by multiplex ligation-dependent probe amplification (MLPA) screening

Prenatal Diagnosis

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 556-558

  Kontos, Harry ^a   Manolakos, Emmanouil ^b   Malligiannis, Pantelis ^c   Plachouras, Nicolaos ^d   Ploumis, Nikolaos ^a   Mihalatos, Markos ^a   Orru, Sandro ^e   Anastasiadou, Erna ^f   Petersen, Michael B ^a,g  

^a 'Genomedica' Molecular Diagnostics Laboratory   (Greece)

^b BIOIATRIKI HEALTHCARE GROUP   (Greece)

^c 'Embryo' Research Center for Prenatal Diagnosis   (Greece)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CAGLIARI   (Italy)

^f BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION   (Greece)

^g Genomedica SA   (Greece)

Author keywords

MLPA; Prenatal diagnosis; Williams syndrome

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMNIOCENTESIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHROMOSOME 7Q; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CHROMOSOME DELETION; FEMALE; FETUS; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; HEART VENTRICLE SEPTUM DEFECT; HUMAN; MULTIPLEX LIGATION DEPENDENT PROBE AMPLIFICATION; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCREENING TEST; SHORT TANDEM REPEAT; WILLIAMS BEUREN SYNDROME;

ADULT; CHROMOSOME DELETION; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 7; FEMALE; GENETIC SCREENING; HUMANS; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION TECHNIQUES; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; WILLIAMS SYNDROME;

EID: 46749132814     PISSN: 01973851     EISSN: 10970223     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pd.2020     Document Type: Article

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