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FISH for Pre-implantation Genetic Diagnosis
Published on: February 23, 2011
Fluorescence in situ hybridization in prenatal screening: lessons from an inherited chromosome 18 marker
Morgane Valentin1, Annick Ottenwalter, Stéphane Serero
1Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology. Hôpital Beaujon, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP), Université Paris 7, 92110 Clichy, France.
Prenatal Diagnosis
|October 10, 2009
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