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Prenatal diagnosis of citrullinemia and argininosuccinic aciduria: evidence for a transmission ratio distortion in citrullinemia.
Prenatal diagnosis - 1 Mar 2006
Kleijer Wim J, Garritsen Victor H, van der Sterre Marianne L T, Berning Christoph, Häberle Johannes, Huijmans Jan G M
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BACKGROUND: In the course of 25 years, we have experienced a high rate of affected fetuses in the prenatal diagnosis of citrullinemia. METHODS AND RESULTS: Ninety-one pregnancies at 1 in 4 risk were tested; 36 were diagnosed as affected (39.5%; P = 0.0015). The high rate of positive diagnoses was found both after chorionic villus sampling (24/68 = 35.3%) and amniocentesis (12/23 = 52.2%) despite the completely...
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