A fetus with ring chromosome 21 characterized by aCGH shows no clinical findings after birth

Prenatal Diagnosis

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 586-588

  Papoulidis, Ioannis ^a   Manolakos, Emmanouil ^b   Siomou, Elisavet ^a   Kefalas, Kostantinos ^b   Thomaidis, Loretta ^c   Liehr, Thomas ^d   Vetro, Annalisa ^e   Athanasiadis, Apostolos ^f   Zuffardi, Orsetta ^e   Petersen, Michael B ^a  

^a Eurogenetica SA   (Greece)

^b BIOIATRIKI HEALTHCARE GROUP   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^d FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^f ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

ACGH; DNA; Fetal cells; Fetal imaging; Fetal ultrasound; FISH; Genetic counseling; Nucleic acids and proteins; Prenatal cytogenetics

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ADULT; AMNIOCENTESIS; AMNION CELL; ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; CAPILLARY ELECTROPHORESIS; CASE REPORT; CHROMOSOME 13; CHROMOSOME 18; CHROMOSOME 21; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CHROMOSOME BAND; CHROMOSOME MARKER; COMPARATIVE GENOMIC HYBRIDIZATION; CYTOGENETICS; DNA EXTRACTION; DNA SEQUENCE; FEMALE; FETUS; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENETIC COUNSELING; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEAD CIRCUMFERENCE; HUMAN; KARYOTYPE 46,XY; LYMPHOCYTE CULTURE; MATERNAL AGE; METAPHASE; NEWBORN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PRENATAL SCREENING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; TANDEM REPEAT; TELOMERE; X CHROMOSOME; Y CHROMOSOME;

ADULT; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 21; COMPARATIVE GENOMIC HYBRIDIZATION; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; FEMALE; FETUS; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PARTURITION; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; RING CHROMOSOMES;

EID: 77952757378     PISSN: 01973851     EISSN: 10970223     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pd.2524     Document Type: Article

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