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Prenatal Diagnosis

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    Chapter 1 Spectral Karyotyping (SKY): Applications in Prenatal Diagnostics
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    Chapter 2 Characterization of Prenatally Assessed De Novo Small Supernumerary Marker Chromosomes by Molecular Cytogenetics
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    Chapter 3 Rapid Prenatal Aneuploidy Screening by Fluorescence In Situ Hybridization (FISH)
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    Chapter 4 Application of Multi-PRINS to Simultaneously Identify Chromosomes 18, X, and Y in Prenatal Diagnosis
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    Chapter 5 Prenatal Diagnosis Using Array CGH
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    Chapter 6 Prenatal Detection of Chromosome Aneuploidy by Quantitative Fluorescence PCR
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    Chapter 7 Real-Time Quantitative PCR for the Detection of Fetal Aneuploidies
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    Chapter 8 MLPA for Prenatal Diagnosis of Commonly Occurring Aneuploidies
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    Chapter 9 MALDI-TOF Mass Spectrometry for Trisomy Detection
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    Chapter 10 Rapid Detection of Fetal Mendelian Disorders: Thalassemia and Sickle Cell Syndromes
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    Chapter 11 Rapid detection of fetal Mendelian disorders: Tay-Sachs disease.
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    Chapter 12 Arrayed Primer Extension Reaction for Genotyping on Oligonucleotide Microarray
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    Chapter 13 A Fast Microelectronic Array for Screening and Prenatal Diagnosis of β-Thalassemia
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    Chapter 14 RHD Genotyping from Maternal Plasma: Guidelines and Technical Challenges
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    Chapter 15 Isolation of Cell-Free DNA from Maternal Plasma Using Manual and Automated Systems
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    Chapter 16 Fetal DNA: Strategies for Optimal Recovery
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    Chapter 17 Quantification of Circulatory Fetal DNA in the Plasma of Pregnant Women
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    Chapter 18 Detection and Quantification of Fetal DNA in Maternal Plasma by Using LightCycler Technology
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    Chapter 19 Size Fractionation of Cell-Free DNA in Maternal Plasma and Its Application in Noninvasive Detection of Fetal Single Gene Point Mutations
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    Chapter 20 MALDI-TOF Mass Spectrometry for Analyzing Cell-Free Fetal DNA in Maternal Plasma
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    Chapter 21 Isolation of Cell-Free RNA from Maternal Plasma
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    Chapter 22 A Microarray Approach for Systematic Identification of Placental-Derived RNA Markers in Maternal Plasma
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    Chapter 23 A Novel Method to Identify Syncytiotrophoblast-Derived RNA Products Representative of Trisomy 21 Placental RNA in Maternal Plasma
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    Chapter 24 Method for Extraction of High-Quantity and -Quality Cell-Free DNA from Amniotic Fluid
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    Chapter 25 Detection of New Screening Markers for Fetal Aneuploidies in Maternal Plasma: A Proteomic Approach
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Chapter title
Rapid detection of fetal Mendelian disorders: Tay-Sachs disease.
Chapter number 11
Book title
Prenatal Diagnosis
Published in
Methods in molecular biology, April 2008
DOI 10.1007/978-1-59745-066-9_11
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Book ISBNs
978-1-58829-803-4, 978-1-59745-066-9
Authors

Esther Guetta, Leah Peleg, Guetta, Esther, Peleg, Leah

Abstract

Tay-Sachs disease is an autosomal recessive storage disease caused by the impaired activity of the lysosomal enzyme hexosaminidase A. In this fatal disease, the sphingolipid GM2 ganglioside accumulates in the neurons. Due to high carrier rates and the severity of the disease, population screening and prenatal diagnosis of Tay-Sachs disease are routinely carried out in Israel. Laboratory diagnosis of Tay-Sachs is carried out with biochemical and DNA-based methods in peripheral and umbilical cord blood, amniotic fluid, and chorionic villi samples. The assay of hexosaminidase A (Hex A) activity is carried out with synthetic substrates, 4-methylumbelliferyl-6-sulfo-N-acetyl-beta-glucosaminide (4-MUGS) and 4-methylumbelliferil-N-acetyl-beta-glucosamine (4-MUG), and the DNA-based analysis involves testing for the presence of specific known mutations in the alpha-subunit gene of Hex A. Prenatal diagnosis of Tay-Sachs disease is accomplished within 24-48 h from sampling. The preferred strategy is to simultaneously carry out enzymatic analysis in the amniotic fluid supernatant or in chorionic villi and molecular DNA-based testing in an amniotic fluid cell-pellet or in chorionic villi.

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 2 29%
Other 2 29%
Student > Bachelor 1 14%
Researcher 1 14%
Unknown 1 14%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 4 57%
Chemistry 1 14%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 1 14%
Unknown 1 14%
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