X-linked recessive Menkes disease: carrier detection in the case of a partial gene deletion.

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X-linked recessive Menkes disease is a lethal disorder of copper metabolism, caused by defects in the ATP7A gene. About 15% of the mutations causing Menkes disease are partial gene deletions. We have previously demonstrated carrier diagnosis of deletions in heterozygotes by Southern blot analysis. As this technique is very time-consuming alternative methods are obviously of high value. Multiplex polymerase chain...

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