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Birth of healthy children after preimplantation diagnosis of beta-thalassemia by whole-genome amplification.
Prenatal diagnosis - 1 Aug 2003
Jiao Zexu, Zhou Canquan, Li Jie, Shu Yimin, Liang Xiaoyan, Zhang Mingfang, Zhuang Guanglun
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Preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) offers couples at risk for transmitting an inherited disorder the possibility to avoid the need to terminate affected pregnancies. PGD for monogenic diseases is most commonly accomplished by blastomere biopsy from cleavage-stage embryos, followed by PCR-bas...
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