Copy-number changes in prenatal diagnosis

Expert Review of Molecular Diagnostics

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 579-592

  Strassberg, Melissa ^a   Fruhman, Gary ^a   Van Den Veyver, Ignatia B ^a  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

array based comparative genomic hybridization; chromosomal microarray analysis; copy number variant; prenatal diagnosis

Indexed keywords

AMNIOCENTESIS; AMNION FLUID; CELL FREE SYSTEM; CHORION VILLUS SAMPLING; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CHROMOSOME DISORDER; CHROMOSOME MOSAICISM; COMPARATIVE GENOMIC HYBRIDIZATION; COPY NUMBER VARIATION; DNA EXTRACTION; DNA FRAGMENTATION; DNA MICROARRAY; DOWN SYNDROME; FAMILY HISTORY; FETUS MALFORMATION; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE DELETION; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE MUTATION; GENE TRANSLOCATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC COUNSELING; GENETIC DISORDER; GENETIC RISK; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; KARYOTYPE; KLINEFELTER SYNDROME; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; REVIEW; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; TRIPLOIDY; TURNER SYNDROME; UNIPARENTAL DISOMY;

AMNIOCENTESIS; CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; COMPARATIVE GENOMIC HYBRIDIZATION; DNA COPY NUMBER VARIATIONS; FEMALE; GENETIC DISEASES, INBORN; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PREGNANCY;

EID: 79960203387     PISSN: 14737159     EISSN: 17448352     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1586/erm.11.43     Document Type: Review

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