A novel methylation PCR that offers standardized determination of FMR1 methylation and CGG repeat length without southern blot analysis.

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Published in J Mol Diagn on October 29, 2013

Authors

Marina Grasso1, Elles M J Boon2, Stela Filipovic-Sadic3, Patrick A van Bunderen2, Elena Gennaro4, Ru Cao3, Gary J Latham3, Andrew G Hadd3, Domenico A Coviello4

Author Affiliations

1: Laboratory of Human Genetics, Galliera Hospital, Genoa, Italy. Electronic address: marina.grasso@galliera.it.
2: Laboratory for Diagnostic Genome Analysis, Department of Clinical Genetics, Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC), Leiden, the Netherlands.
3: Asuragen, Inc., Austin, Texas.
4: Laboratory of Human Genetics, Galliera Hospital, Genoa, Italy.

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