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Fetomaternal Cellular and Plasma DNA Trafficking
1 Sept 2001
Abstract excerpt
In human pregnancy, multiple lines of evidence have indicated that there is trafficking of nucleated cells and cell-free DNA between the mother and fetus. Diagnostically, fetal cells in maternal blood and fetal DNA in maternal plasma offer a noninvasive source of fetal material for prenatal diagnosis. Through the developments of methods for fetal cell isolation and fetal DNA detection, many fetal genetic...
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