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Prenatal diagnosis for risk of spinal muscular atrophy.
BJOG : an international journal of obstetrics and gynaecology - 1 Nov 2002
Cuscó I, Barceló M J, Soler C, Parra J, Baiget M, Tizzano E
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OBJECTIVES: Prenatal diagnosis of spinal muscular atrophy is usually performed in high risk couples by detection of a homozygous deletion in the survival motor neurone gene (SMN1). However, other relatives at risk of being carriers very often request genetic counselling and the possibility of prenatal diagnosis. The aim of this study was to validate a SMN1 gene quantitative test to help the couples formed by one...
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