Technical advances in prenatal diagnosis of tyrosinase-negative oculocutaneous albinism.

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Technical advances in prenatal diagnosis of tyrosinase-negative oculocutaneous albinism.

Acta dermato-venereologica - 1 Jan 1997

Shimizu H

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Technical advances in the prenatal diagnosis of tyrosinase-negative oculocutaneous albinism, the most severe subtype of this disease, are reviewed. Ultrastructural examination of hair bulb melanocytes in fetal skin during the second trimester of pregnancy was the first successful method for the p...

Topics

Albinism, Oculocutaneous
Female
Histocytochemistry
Humans
Levodopa
Male
Melanocytes
Monophenol Monooxygenase
Mutation
Pregnancy
Prenatal Diagnosis
Skin

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