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Preimplantation diagnosis of Lesch-Nyhan using mini-sequencing primer extension.
Reproductive biomedicine online - 1 Oct 2003
Cram D S, Song B, Trounson A O
Abstract excerpt
Lesch-Nyhan syndrome (LN) is a severe X-linked disorder of males characterized by hyperuricaemia, choreoathetosis, spasticity, mental retardation and self-mutilation. The disorder is caused by a wide spectrum of mutations distributed throughout the hypoxanthine phosphoribosyltransferase (HPRT) gene. Female carriers of LN display no clinical symptoms but are at 50% risk of passing on the affected gene to their...
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