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      A correlative study of quantitative EMG and biopsy findings in 31 patients with myopathies 

      Dardiotis, Efthymios; Papathanasiou, Eleftherios Stelios; Vonta, Filia; Hadjigeorgiou, Georgios M.; Zamba-Papanicolaou, Eleni; Kyriakides, Theodoros (2011)
      A direct correlation of QEMG with muscle biopsy findings might help delineate the sensitivity of QEMG in identifying muscle pathology as well as provide information on electrophysiological-histological correlations. In a ...
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      Greek Cypriot allele and genotype frequencies for amplitype® PM-DQA1 and D1S80 loci 

      Cariolou, Marios A.; Manoli, Panayiotis; Christoforou, Maria; Bashiardes, Evy; Karagrigoriou, Alex; Budowle, Bruce (1998)
      A sample from the Greek Cypriot population was typed at seven forensically important PCR-based loci: LDLR, GYPA, HBGG, D7S8, GC, HLA-DQA1, and D1S80. The results showed that all loci meet Hardy-Weinberg expectations and ...
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      MeDIP real-time qPCR of maternal peripheral blood reliably identifies trisomy 21 

      Tsaliki, Evdokia; Papageorgiou, Elisavet A.; Spyrou, Christiana; Koumbaris, George L.; Kypri, Elena; Kyriakou, Skevi; Sotiriou, Chrysovalanto; Touvana, Evi; Keravnou, Anna; Karagrigoriou, Alex; Lamnissou, Klea; Velissariou, Voula; Patsalis, Philippos C. (2012)
      Objective: To reevaluate the efficiency of the 12 differentially methylated regions (DMRs) used in the methylated DNA immunoprecipitation (MeDIP) real-time quantitative polymerase chain reaction (real-time qPCR) based ...
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      A Simplified Method for Measuring the Thickness of Glomerular Basement Membranes 

      Marquez, B.; Zouvani, Ioanna; Karagrigoriou, Alex; Anastasiades, E.; Pierides, Alkis M.; Kyriacou, Kyriacos C. (2003)
      Measurement of the thickness of glomerular basement membranes is required for the diagnosis of thin membrane nephropathy. Over the years various morphometric methods have been used but some are laborious so there is a need ...