Article
Noninvasive Antenatal Determination of Fetal Blood Group Using Next-Generation Sequencing.
Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in medicine - 28 Oct 2015
Rieneck Klaus, Clausen Frederik Banch, Dziegiel Morten Hanefeld
Abstract excerpt
Hemolytic disease of the fetus and newborn (HDFN) is a condition characterized by a decreased lifespan of fetal red blood cells caused by maternally produced allospecific antibodies transferred to the fetus during pregnancy. The antibodies bind to the corresponding blood group antigens on fetal red blood cells and induce hemolysis. Cell-free DNA derived from the conceptus circulates in maternal blood. Using...
Topics
- Blood Group Antigens
- DNA
- Female
- Fetus
- Genotype
- High-Throughput Nucleotide Sequencing
- Humans
- Pregnancy
- Prenatal Diagnosis
- Sequence Analysis, DNA
