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We developed a method that allows prenatal diagnosis of Duchenne Muscular dystrophy using a single nucleated erythrocyte(NRBC)isolated from maternal blood.Maternal blood was obtained at 8 to 20 weeks of gestation.NRBCs were separated with Percoll using a discontinuous density gradient method and then collected by micromanipulation under microscopic observation.The entire genome of a single cell was amplified by primer extension preamplification(PEP).Sex was determined from a small aliquot of the PEP reaction.After an NRBC was determined to be male and confirmed to be of fetal origin,dystrophin exons 4,8,12,45,48,50,and 51 were determined from the same PEP reaction.This diagnostic method using maternal blood is safer than amniocentesis or cordocentesis and can be applied to other X-linked diseases. |
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genetic diagnosis,prenatal
muscular dystrophy
muscular dystrophy,Duchenne
neurologic disease,diagnoses of
polymerase chain reaction
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