Current controversies in prenatal diagnosis 3: is conventional chromosome analysis necessary in the post‐array CGH era?

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The-Hung Bui Microscopic chromosome analysis of cultured cells has been regarded as the standard method for prenatal cytogenetic diagnosis since its first application to prenatal testing in 1966 (Steele and Breg, 1966) and has become routine since the first use of chromosome banding (karyotyping) in the early 1970s. Karyotyping has proved to be highly reliable for the diagnosis of numerical chromosome...

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