Noninvasive prenatal diagnosis of Huntington disease: Detection of the paternally inherited expanded CAG repeat in maternal plasma

Prenatal Diagnosis

Volumn 35, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 945-949

  Van den Oever, Jessica M E ^a   Bijlsma, Emilia K ^a   Feenstra, Ilse ^b   Muntjewerff, Nienke ^c   Mathijssen, Inge B ^d   Bakker, Egbert ^a   Van Belzen, Martine J ^a   Boon, Elles M J ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^d ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA; HTT PROTEIN, HUMAN; NERVE PROTEIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CAG REPEAT; CHORION VILLUS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; MALE; MATERNAL PLASMA; NON INVASIVE PROCEDURE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VALIDATION STUDY; BLOOD; GENETICS; HUNTINGTON DISEASE; MATERNAL SERUM SCREENING TEST;

FEMALE; HUMANS; HUNTINGTON DISEASE; MALE; MATERNAL SERUM SCREENING TESTS; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; PREGNANCY;

EID: 84943348223     PISSN: 01973851     EISSN: 10970223     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pd.4593     Document Type: Article

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