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Prenatal diagnosis of xeroderma pigmentosum group A in Japan.
The Journal of dermatology - 1 Jun 2012
Moriwaki Shinichi, Yamashita Yoshiki, Nakamura Sachiko, Fujita Daisuke, Kohyama Jun, Takigawa Masahiro, Ohmichi Masahide
Abstract excerpt
We performed a prenatal diagnosis for 10 fetuses from nine unrelated Japanese xeroderma pigmentosum complementation group A (XP-A) families. All parents had at least one XP-A child (proband) with a homozygous founder mutation (IVS3-1G>C) in the XPA gene. A genetic analysis was performed by a restriction enzyme; AlwNI fragment length polymorphism of polymerase chain reaction (PCR)-amplified DNA, mostly from...
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