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[New frontiers in noninvasive, prenatal screening and diagnosis: fetal DNA circulating in maternal blood].
Minerva ginecologica - 1 Jun 2007
Montagnana M, Lippi G, Guidi G C
Abstract excerpt
Prenatal diagnosis is aimed to provide reliable clinical information to parents and physician on the risk of having babies affected by inherited anomalies or genetic disorders. Placenta is not a barrier between the pregnant woman and her genetically different fetus, but it is the centre of a complex bidirectional transfer. The discovery of circulating fetal DNA in maternal blood has disclosed new strategies to...
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