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We would like to thank Dan Diego Alvarez and Belen Gomez for their contributions to this work and Oliver Shaw for his revision of the English version of this article. Mónica Martínez-García is sponsored by the Fundación Conchita Rábago at the Fundación Jiménez Díaz. This work has been sponsored by the Fundación Ramón Areces (4715/001) and the CIBER-ER at the Instituto de Salud Carlos III (06/07/0036).
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Capsule A full monosomy 21 was detected by MLPA in a chorionic villi sample taken during the 7th week of pregnancy and confirmed by array CGH.
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Martinez-Garcia, M., Ainse, E., García-Hoyos, M. et al. Broadening our understanding by the use of molecular cytogenetic techniques: full monosomy 21. J Assist Reprod Genet 28, 621–626 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10815-011-9569-x
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