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Second trimester maternal serum analytes in triploid pregnancies: correlation with phenotype and sex chromosome complement.
Prenatal diagnosis - 1 Aug 2001
Benn P A, Gainey A, Ingardia C J, Rodis J F, Egan J F
Abstract excerpt
Second trimester maternal serum alpha-fetoprotein (MS-AFP), human chorionic gonadotrophin (hCG), unconjugated estiol (uE3), and inhibin-A (INH-A) levels were evaluated in pregnancies complicated by triploidy. In addition to seven new triploid pregnancies, the results for 67 published cases were reviewed. All cases appear to fall into two major groups. First, those identifiable as screen-positive for both Down...
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