Factors Affecting the Clinical Use of Non-Invasive Prenatal Testing
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Factors Affecting the Clinical Use of Non-Invasive Prenatal Testing
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: JBR Journal of Clinical Diagnosis and Research
سال: 2015
ISSN: 2376-0311
DOI: 10.4172/2376-0311.1000121