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DNA analysis and genetic counselling in Duchenne muscular dystrophy
R J Gardner1, S J Wilson, R J Wilkins
1Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, University of Otago, Dunedin.
The New Zealand Medical Journal
|July 13, 1988
Abstract:
The new modality of DNA analysis has enabled a major advance in genetic counseling of families with Duchenne muscular dystrophy. Precise determination of the carrier status of females is possible; and the affected fetus may be identified at an early stage of pregnancy.