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Birth of a healthy histocompatible sibling following preimplantation genetic diagnosis for chronic granulomatous disease at the blastocyst stage coupled to HLA typing.
Fetal diagnosis and therapy - 1 Jan 2008
Pangalos Constantinos G, Hagnefelt Birgitta, Kokkali Georgia, Pantos Konstantinos, Konialis Christopher P
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OBJECTIVE: To perform preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) for chronic granulomatous disease with simultaneous HLA typing in a family case with an affected male child, with the aim of selecting unaffected and HLA-matched embryos to act as donors for hematopoietic stem cell transplantation from umbilical cord blood. METHODS: A flexible, indirect HLA haplotyping protocol, based on single-cell multiplex PCR...
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