Analysis of the Size Distributions of Fetal and Maternal Cell-Free DNA by Paired-End Sequencing

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BACKGROUND: Noninvasive prenatal diagnosis with cell-free DNA in maternal plasma is challenging because only a small portion of the DNA sample is derived from the fetus. A few previous studies provided size-range estimates of maternal and fetal DNA, but direct measurement of the size distributions is difficult because of the small quantity of cell-free DNA. METHODS: We used high-throughput paired-end sequencing...

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