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First-trimester prenatal molecular diagnosis of infantile hypophosphatasia in a Japanese family.
Prenatal diagnosis - 1 Jun 1996
Orimo H, Nakajima E, Hayashi Z, Kijima K, Watanabe A, Tenjin H, Araki T, Shimada T
Abstract excerpt
We obtained a prenatal molecular diagnosis during the first trimester in a Japanese woman whose first child (the proband) had been a compound heterozygote for infantile hypophosphatasia. We examined chorionic villus DNA samples obtained at 10 weeks of gestation for the base substitutions detected in the proband DNA using polymerase chain reaction (PCR)-restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) and...
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