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Resolving a genetic paradox throughout preimplantation genetic diagnosis for autosomal dominant severe congenital neutropenia.
Prenatal diagnosis - 1 Mar 2010
Malcov Mira, Reches Adi, Ben-Yosef Dalit, Cohen Tania, Amit Ami, Dgany Orly, Tamary Hannah, Yaron Yuval
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OBJECTIVE: Severe congenital neutropenia is an inherited disease characterized by low peripheral blood neutrophils, amenable to bone marrow transplantation. Genetic analysis in the family here described detected a ELA2 splice-site mutation in the affected child and also in his asymptomatic father. The parents requested preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD), coupled with HLA matching, to obtain a suitable bone...
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