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Aneuploidy screening: a position statement from a committee on behalf of the Board of the International Society for Prenatal Diagnosis, January 2011
23 May 2011
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Definitive prenatal diagnosis of Down syndrome and certain other fetal aneuploidies through chromosome analysis of amniocytes or chorionic villus samples (CVS) is an accepted part of prenatal care. But these procedures carry some degree of risk for miscarriage or other pregnancy complications (Tabor and Alfirevic, 2010). Therefore, in most developed countries it is now a routine practice to provide a woman's...
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