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Clinical Perspective of Cell-Free DNA Testing for Fetal Aneuploidies
1 Jan 2014
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Cell-free DNA testing in maternal blood provides the most effective method of screening for trisomy 21, with a reported detection rate of 99% and a false positive rate of less than 0.1%. After many years of research, this method is now commercially available and is carried out in an increasing number of patients, and there is an expanding number of conditions that can be screened for. However, the application of...
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