Evaluation of an in-house protocol for prenatal molecular diagnosis of SMA in Chinese

Clinica Chimica Acta

Volumn 398, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 78-81

  Zeng, Jian ^a   Lan, Fenghua ^a   Deng, Xiaojun ^a   Ke, Longfeng ^a   Tu, Xiangdong ^a   Huang, Lianghu ^a   Zheng, Dezhu ^a   Zhu, Zhongyong ^a  

^a FUZHOU GENERAL HOSPITAL   (China)

Author keywords

MLPA; Prenatal diagnosis; SMN; Spinal muscular atrophy

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CHINESE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA EXTRACTION; EXON; FEMALE; FETUS; GENE; GENE LOSS; HUMAN; MALE; MULTIPLE LIGATION DEPENDENT PROBE AMPLIFICATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RELIABILITY; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SMN1 GENE; SPINAL MUSCULAR ATROPHY;

ADULT; ALLELES; AMNIOTIC FLUID; CHINA; DNA; EXONS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION TECHNIQUES; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPINAL MUSCULAR ATROPHIES OF CHILDHOOD; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 54049132812     PISSN: 00098981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cca.2008.08.015     Document Type: Article

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