Article
Mutation-based prenatal diagnosis of Herlitz junctional epidermolysis bullosa.
Prenatal diagnosis - 1 Apr 1997
Christiano A M, Pulkkinen L, McGrath J A, Uitto J
Abstract excerpt
Epidermolysis bullosa (EB) is a group of heritable diseases which manifest with blistering and erosions of the skin and mucous membranes. Due of life-threatening complications and significant long-term morbidity associated with the severe, neonatal lethal (Herlitz) form of junctional EB (H-JEB),...
Topics
- Amniotic Fluid
- Cell Adhesion Molecules
- Chorionic Villi Sampling
- DNA
- Epidermolysis Bullosa, Junctional
- Female
- Fetal Diseases
- Genotype
- Humans
- Infant
- Infant, Newborn
- Male
- Mutation
