Article
Prenatal diagnosis of choroideremia.
Acta ophthalmologica Scandinavica. Supplement - 1 Jan 1996
Schwartz M, Rosenberg T
Abstract excerpt
With the mapping of the locus CHM for choroideremia and the subsequent cloning of the gene, reliable carrier and prenatal diagnosis has become a possibility. We discuss our experience with prenatal diagnosis of choroideremia, an X-linked choroidoretinal dystrophy leading to blindness in otherwise...
Topics
- Adult
- Base Sequence
- Choroideremia
- DNA
- Female
- Genetic Linkage
- Humans
- Male
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Mutation
- Pedigree
- Polymorphism, Restriction Fragment Length
- Pregnancy
