Prenatal diagnosis of thalassemia in the
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Liu, Ta-Chih; Lin, Sheng-Fung; Yang, Tzu-Yao; Lee, Jing-Ping; Chen, Tyen-Po; Cha
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Article
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1997
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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There is a high prevalence of thalassemia in the Taiwan area. Prenatal diagnosis of severe forms of thalassemia is important for the prevention of this disease. We performed prenatal diagnosis in 167 cases, of which 59 cases were diagnosed by chorionic villi biopsy, 91 cases by amniotic fluid analys