Pitfalls in prenatal diagnosis of DMD due to confined placental mosaicism of X-chromosomes: prenatal diagnosis and fetopathological findings in a fetus with deletion of exon 68–72 of dystrophin gene

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Pitfalls in prenatal diagnosis of DMD due to placental mosaicism of the X-chromosomes: prenatal and postnatal findings in a fetus with a deletion of exons 67–71 of the dystrophin gene

✍ Sigrid Vondran; Jeanett Edelmann; Heidrun Holland; Claudia Wolf; Sibylle Strenge 📂 Article 📅 1999 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 165 KB 👁 2 views

Prenatal diagnosis of Duchenne and Becker muscular dystrophy (DMD) is performed as a routine procedure in many laboratories. The major potential problem is an incorrect diagnosis that could be obtained due to contamination with maternal tissue. We report a case of mosaicism of the X-chromosomes conf