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Noninvasive prenatal diagnosis of fetal blood group phenotypes: current practice and future prospects.
Prenatal diagnosis - 1 Feb 2009
Daniels Geoff, Finning Kirstin, Martin Pete, Massey Edwin
Abstract excerpt
Fetuses of women with alloantibodies to RhD (D) are at risk from hemolytic disease of the fetus and newborn, but only if the fetal red cells are D-positive. In such pregnancies, it is beneficial to determine fetal D type, as this will affect the management of the pregnancy. It is possible to predict, with a high level of accuracy, fetal blood group phenotypes from genotyping tests on fetal DNA. The best source is...
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