Article
Detection of Duchenne and Becker muscular dystrophy carriers by quantitative multiplex polymerase chain reaction analysis.
Neurology - 1 Sept 1992
Ioannou P, Christopoulos G, Panayides K, Kleanthous M, Middleton L
Abstract excerpt
We developed a method for the detection of Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) and Becker muscular dystrophy (BMD) carriers. The method is based on the quantitative analysis of the products of standard multiplex polymerase chain reaction (PCR) from 18 different exons of the dystrophin gene, and is designated "QM-PCR." We detected deletions of one or more exons by standard multiplex PCR in DMD/BMD patients in 14 of...
Topics
- Exons
- Female
- Genetic Carrier Screening
- Haplotypes
- Humans
- Male
- Muscular Dystrophies
- Mutation
- Pedigree
- Polymerase Chain Reaction
