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Fetal cells and cell-free fetal DNA in maternal blood: new insights into pre-eclampsia
1 Nov 2002
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The examination of fetal cells, specifically erythroblasts, and cell-free fetal DNA from the blood of pregnant women is currently the subject of intense research with the aim of developing new risk-free methods for prenatal diagnosis. An unexpected finding made during these studies was that the traffic of fetal erythroblasts into the maternal peripheral circulation was enhanced in pre-eclampsia. Independent...
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