Article Text
Archivist
Working with the tooth fairy
Statistics from Altmetric.com
Posthumous molecular genetic analyses of tissue such as teeth are common in forensic investigation but their use in clinical genetic counselling has rarely been reported. In Perth, Australia (Helen Leonard and colleagues.
) DNA analysis of tissue from a saved deciduous tooth established a diagnosis of Rett syndrome 13 years after the death of a child.
The child …
Request Permissions
If you wish to reuse any or all of this article please use the link below which will take you to the Copyright Clearance Center’s RightsLink service. You will be able to get a quick price and instant permission to reuse the content in many different ways.
Copyright information:
Copyright 2006 Archives of Disease in Childhood