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Fetal cell recycling: diagnosis of gender and RhD genotype in the same fetal cell retrieved from maternal blood.
American journal of obstetrics and gynecology - 1 Nov 1999
Sekizawa A, Samura O, Zhen D K, Falco V, Bianchi D W
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OBJECTIVE: Our aim was to develop a new technique, which we have termed fetal cell recycling, that combines the 2 powerful methods of fluorescence in situ hybridization and polymerase chain reaction to maximize the genetic information available from a small number of fetal nucleated erythrocytes obtained noninvasively from the blood of pregnant women. STUDY DESIGN: Blood samples were obtained from 4 Rh-negative...
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