Advances in genetic diagnosis.

doi:10.1097/00008480-199312000-00016

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Advances in genetic diagnosis.

Current opinion in pediatrics - 1 Dec 1993

Korf B R

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For many years, the mainstay of pediatric genetic testing was chromosomal analysis. Based on a technology developed in the 1950s and refined in the 1960s, this approach permitted the detection of abnormalities of chromosome number and some structural rearrangements. The past decade has seen an ex...

Topics

Child
Chromosome Aberrations
Cytogenetics
Genetic Diseases, Inborn
Genetic Linkage
Humans
Mosaicism
Mutation

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