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A Forward Look At Noninvasive Prenatal Testing.
Trends in molecular medicine - 1 Nov 2016
Liu Li, Li Kang, Fu Xin, Chung Christopher, Zhang Kang
Abstract excerpt
Genomic abnormalities are a leading cause of birth defects and pregnancy complications, including in utero growth retardation and risk of miscarriage. Traditional invasive methods detecting such genomic abnormalities pose a relative risk to mother and unborn fetus. Non-invasive prenatal testing (NIPT) is a method that determines the genomic status of a fetus in utero by analyzing circulating fetal DNA in maternal...
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