Identification of deletions and duplications in the Duchenne muscular dystrophy gene and female carrier status in western India using combined methods of multiplex polymerase chain reaction and multiplex ligation-dependent probe amplification

Neurology India

Volumn 59, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 803-809

  Dastur, Rashna S ^a   Kachwala, Munira Y ^a   Khadilkar, Satish V ^b   Hegde, Madhuri R ^c   Gaitonde, Pradnya S ^a  

^a TDM Therapeutic Drug Monitoring Laboratory   (India)

^b BOMBAY HOSPITAL   (India)

^c EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Carrier; deletions; Duchenne muscular dystrophy gene; duplications; multiplex ligation dependent probe amplification

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CAPILLARY ELECTROPHORESIS; DUCHENNE MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY; FEMALE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE DELETION; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC IDENTIFICATION; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMAN; INDIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIPLEX LIGATION DEPENDENT PROBE AMPLIFICATION; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; DYSTROPHIN; EXONS; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; HUMANS; INDIA; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY, DUCHENNE; MUTATION RATE; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84856116054     PISSN: 00283886     EISSN: 19984022     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0028-3886.91355     Document Type: Article

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