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Virologists, pathologists, oncologists, immunologists and biochemists all use molecular genetic techniques as one of their investigative tools. Here, however, I shall restrict myself to molecular genetic investigations performed in a clinical genetics setting, but including tests for any clinical genetic purpose and not just antenatal diagnosis. These services are at present applicable only to diseases with a simple mendelian mode of inheritance.
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Read, A.P. (1991). National Coordination of Molecular Genetic Services. In: Drife, J.O., Donnai, D. (eds) Antenatal Diagnosis of Fetal Abnormalities. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-1854-1_24
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