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Preimplantation genetic diagnosis for fragile Xa syndrome: difficult but not impossible.
Human reproduction (Oxford, England) - 1 Nov 2002
Platteau Peter, Sermon Karen, Seneca Sara, Van Steirteghem André, Devroey Paul, Liebaers Inge
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BACKGROUND: In this paper, we review our clinical preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) programme for fragile Xa syndrome, analysing if PGD for these couples is still a valuable option, as it is particularly difficult for two reasons. First, the couples have to be informative (the number of triplet repeats on the healthy FMR-1 allele of the mother has to be different from the number of repeats on the healthy...
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