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Noninvasive prenatal detection of fetal trisomy 18 by epigenetic allelic ratio analysis in maternal plasma: Theoretical and empirical considerations.
Clinical chemistry - 1 Dec 2006
Tong Yu K, Ding Chunming, Chiu Rossa W K, Gerovassili Ageliki, Chim Stephen S C, Leung Tak Y, Leung Tse N, Lau Tze K, Nicolaides Kypros H, Lo Y M Dennis
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BACKGROUND: The discovery of cell-free fetal DNA in maternal plasma has opened up new possibilities for noninvasive prenatal diagnosis. However, the use of maternal plasma fetal DNA for the direct detection of fetal chromosomal aneuploidies has not been reported. We postulate that the aneuploidy...
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