Genetic counseling and “molecular” prenatal diagnosis of holoprosencephaly (HPE)
✍ Scribed by Sandra Mercier; Christèle Dubourg; Marion Belleguic; Laurent Pasquier; Philippe Loget; Josette Lucas; Claude Bendavid; Sylvie Odent
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2010
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 135 KB
- Volume
- 154C
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1552-4868
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
📜 SIMILAR VOLUMES
The prenatal diagnosis of dup(3p) was made in a female conceptus, the father being a known carrier of a balanced translocation t(3; lO)(p21 ;q26). Interruption of pregnancy at 19 weeks showed a fetus with a holoprosencephaly field defect. Two other cases of dup(3p) have been observed in the same fam
Alobar holoprosencephaly (HPE) was identi®ed by ultrasonography at 18 weeks' gestation in a fetus of a 29-year-old G2P0A1 woman. HPE has been described in association with various chromosomal anomalies. Amniocentesis was performed and a rearrangement of chromosome 18 resembling an isochromosome for