Disability activism and non-invasive prenatal testing: A response to Breimer
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Non-invasive prenatal testing.
BACKGROUND Non-invasive prenatal testing (NIPT), also known as cell-free DNA testing and non-invasive prenatal screening (NIPS), is an important addition to the range of screening tests for fetal chromosomal abnormalities. For trisomy 21 in particular, NIPT is superior to other screening modalities. However, NIPT has limitations and complexities that requesting clinicians and their patients sho...
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We thank Dr Lüthgens and collaborators for their interest in our article. We welcome the opportunity to provide clarification and further stimulate the discussion on this important topic. The authors raised concerns regarding the accuracy of the method used in our study to determine the fetal fraction (FF). The reason for their criticism is related to the higher proportion of samples with an FF...
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Non-invasive prenatal testing (NIPT) is a technique first developed in the early 1990’s that enables testing of a fetus for genetic conditions, based on a sample of maternal blood [1]. Small fragments of extracellular DNA from both mother and fetus are present in maternal plasma, and by excluding fragments of maternal origin, the fetus can be tested for sex, aneuploidy and some specific genetic...
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عنوان ژورنال: Indian Journal of Medical Ethics
سال: 2020
ISSN: 0974-8466,0975-5691
DOI: 10.20529/ijme.2020.112