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Treatment of Maternal Blood Samples with Formaldehyde Does Not Alter the Proportion of Circulatory Fetal Nucleic Acids (DNA and mRNA) in Maternal Plasma
1 Mar 2005
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Cell-free fetal DNA and fetal mRNA can be found in maternal plasma and used for noninvasive prenatal diagnosis and, potentially, for monitoring and prognosis of certain pregnancy-related clinical conditions (1)(2)(3)(4)(5)(6)(7)(8)(9)(10)(11)(12). The excess of maternal DNA in these samples, however, complicates the detection of fetal genetic traits that are similar to those in the maternal genome (e.g., point...
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