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Improvement in sensitivity of allele-specific PCR facilitates reliable noninvasive prenatal detection of cystic fibrosis.
Clinical chemistry - 1 Apr 2004
Nasis Ourania, Thompson Shanel, Hong Tom, Sherwood Margaret, Radcliffe Shawn, Jackson Laird, Otevrel Tomas
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BACKGROUND: Cell-free fetal DNA circulating in maternal blood has potential as a safer alternative to invasive methods of prenatal testing for paternally inherited genetic alterations, such as cystic fibrosis (CF) mutations. METHODS: We used allele-specific PCR to detect mutated CF D1152H DNA in...
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