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Prenatal diagnosis of hemoglobin disorders: present and future strategies.
Clinical biochemistry - 1 Dec 2009
Harteveld Cornelis L, Kleanthous Marina, Traeger-Synodinos Joanne
Abstract excerpt
Prenatal diagnosis for the hemoglobinopathies based on molecular analysis of trophoblast or amniocyte DNA has accumulated around 30 years of experience, following the first applications in the 1970s. As the first monogenic diseases to be characterized at the molecular level the disorders of hemoglobin synthesis (thalassemias and hemoglobinopathies) have been used as a prototype for the development of many...
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