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[Clinical implementation of non-invasive prenatal study for detecting aneuploidies by fetal DNA based on single nucleotide polymorphisms: two years in Mexico].
Ginecologia y obstetricia de Mexico - 1 Apr 2015
Sánchez-Usabiaga Rafael A, Aguinaga-Ríos Mónica, Batista-Espinoza Anaid, Hurtado-Amador Ricardo, Romero-Tovar Sergio
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Recent data have shown that non invasive prenatal test (NIPT) for the detection of fetal aneuploidies (chromosomes 13, 18, 21, X, Y, and triploidy) by cell free fetal DNA in maternal blood (cfDNA) is a clinical reality, with detection rates > 99% and false positive rates of 0.1%. Results that exceed the first trimester screening. OBJECTIVE: To describe our experience of 2 years integrating NIPT by...
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