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[Use of microsatellites in zygosity diagnosis of twins].
Zhonghua yi xue yi chuan xue za zhi = Zhonghua yixue yichuanxue zazhi = Chinese journal of medical genetics - 1 Dec 2001
He X, Zhu D, Han Z, Liu X, Wang G, Chu S, Zhang W, Zhou H, Mao S, Zhuang Q, Zhao Y, Huang W
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVE: To diagnose zygosity of twins by microsatellite polymorphism. METHODS: One hundred and eighty-four samples, including 69 pairs of twins with the same gender and 6 pairs of twins with different gender were recruited. Seventeen sib pairs were also collected for controls. Nine highly polymorphic microsatellite loci were amplified by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) using fluorescence-labeled primers and...
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