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Three years' diagnostic experience with direct karyotyping of neonatal blood
Author(s) -
Garnham I.,
Sutherland G. R.
Publication year - 1990
Publication title -
clinical genetics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.543
H-Index - 102
eISSN - 1399-0004
pISSN - 0009-9163
DOI - 10.1111/j.1399-0004.1990.tb03597.x
Subject(s) - karyotype , cord blood , venous blood , medicine , chromosome , pathology , biology , genetics , gene
Three years' experience with direct karyotyping of cord blood and neonatal venous blood is recorded. Fifty cord blood samples have been processed and 39 yielded satisfactory diagnostic results. Eight of 14 neonatal venous blood samples yielded diagnostic chromosome results after direct karyotyping. Factors which affected success are discussed.