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Hypermethylated RASSF1A in maternal plasma: A universal fetal DNA marker that improves the reliability of noninvasive prenatal diagnosis.
Clinical chemistry - 1 Dec 2006
Chan K C Allen, Ding Chunming, Gerovassili Ageliki, Yeung Sze W, Chiu Rossa W K, Leung Tse N, Lau Tze K, Chim Stephen S C, Chung Grace T Y, Nicolaides Kypros H, Lo Y M Dennis
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BACKGROUND: We recently demonstrated that the promoter of the RASSF1A gene is hypermethylated in the placenta and hypomethylated in maternal blood cells. This methylation pattern allows the use of methylation-sensitive restriction enzyme digestion for detecting the placental-derived hypermethylat...
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