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Prenatal diagnosis of Fukuyama-type congenital muscular dystrophy by microsatellite analysis.
Human reproduction (Oxford, England) - 1 Feb 1998
Takai Y, Tsutsumi O, Harada I, Fujii T, Kashima T, Kobayashi K, Toda T, Taketani Y
Abstract excerpt
We applied microsatellite analysis to prenatal diagnosis of Fukuyama-type congenital muscular dystrophy (FCMD), an autosomal recessive severe muscular dystrophy associated with brain malformations. Recent identification of the FCMD gene locus at 9q31-q33 provided the basis for prenatal diagnosis and carrier detection. We recently developed new microsatellite markers which are closer to the FCMD gene and improved...
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