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PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS OF UNIPARENTAL DISOMY 15 FOLLOWING TRISOMY 15 MOSAICISM
1 Apr 1996
Abstract excerpt
Maternal uniparental disomy 15 (UPD15), responsible for approximately 25 per cent of Prader-Willi syndrome cases, is usually caused by maternal meiosis I non-disjunction associated with advanced maternal age. These cases may initially be detected as mosaic trisomy 15 during routine prenatal diagnostic studies. In such cases, PCR (polymerase chain reaction) microsatellite analysis of uncultured cells makes...
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