Gene dosage analysis of proximal spinal muscular atrophy carriers using real-time PCR

Archives of Iranian Medicine

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 188-191

  Abbaszadegan, Mohammad R ^a,b   Keify, Fatemeh ^a   Ashrafzadeh, Farah ^c   Farshchian, Moein ^d   Khadivi Zand, Farhad ^e   Teymoorzadeh, Mohammad Naser ^f   Mojahedi, Faezeh ^e   Ebrahimzadeh, Reza ^b   Ahadian, Mitra ^a  

^a Pardis Clinical and Genetics Laboratory   (Iran)

^b MASHHAD UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c MASHHAD UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^d FERDOWSI UNIVERSITY OF MASHHAD   (Iran)

^e Mashhad Medical Genetics Counseling Center   (Iran)

^f Sina Hospital   (Iran)

Author keywords

Gene dosage; Real Time PCR; SMN1; Spinal muscular atrophy

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; DNA; SURVIVAL MOTOR NEURON PROTEIN 1; SMN1 PROTEIN, HUMAN;

ALBUMIN BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; CHILD; COMPARATIVE GENE MAPPING; COMPARATIVE THRESHOLD CYCLE; DNA DETERMINATION; GENE DELETION; GENE DOSAGE; HEREDITARY SPINAL MUSCULAR ATROPHY; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; GENETICS; HOMOZYGOTE; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SPINAL MUSCULAR ATROPHY;

GENE DELETION; GENE DOSAGE; HETEROZYGOTE; HOMOZYGOTE; HUMANS; MUSCULAR ATROPHY, SPINAL; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SURVIVAL OF MOTOR NEURON 1 PROTEIN;

EID: 79961187675     PISSN: 10292977     EISSN: 17353947     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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