QF-PCR: Application, overview and review of the literature

Prenatal Diagnosis

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 309-314

  Mann, Kathy ^a   Ogilvie, Caroline Mackie ^a  

^a GUY'S AND ST THOMAS' NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Karyotyping; PGD; QF PCR

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ANEUPLOIDY; CHORION VILLUS SAMPLING; CONCEPTION; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DNA EXTRACTION; HUMAN; MOSAICISM; MULTIPLEX LIGATION DEPENDENT PROBE AMPLIFICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE FLUORESCENT POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVIEW; TRIPLOIDY;

ADULT; AMNIOCENTESIS; AMNIOTIC FLUID; CHORIONIC VILLI SAMPLING; CHROMOSOME DISORDERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREGNANCY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 84859113049     PISSN: 01973851     EISSN: 10970223     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pd.2945     Document Type: Review

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