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Profile of beta-thalassemia in eastern India and its prenatal diagnosis.
Prenatal diagnosis - 15 Dec 2004
Bandyopadhyay Aditi, Bandyopadhyay Sanmay, Basak Jayasri, Mondal Bama Charan, Sarkar Anjali Angelika, Majumdar Sunipa, Das Mani Kanchan, Chandra Sharmila, Mukhopadhyay Ashis, Sanghamita Mamtaj, Ghosh Kusagradhi, Dasgupta Uma B
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OBJECTIVE: To control the birth of thalassemic children in India. METHODS: Mutations present in the population of eastern India and in carrier parents seeking prenatal diagnosis were detected by the PCR-based technique of ARMS (amplification refractory mutation system) or gap-PCR. To screen for maternal tissue contamination in CVS, haplotypes associated with the beta-globin gene clusters were constructed using...
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