Noninvasive prenatal molecular karyotyping from maternal plasma.

Fetal DNA is present in the plasma of pregnant women. Massively parallel sequencing of maternal plasma DNA has been used to detect fetal trisomies 21, 18, 13 and selected sex chromosomal aneuploidies noninvasively. Case reports describing the detection of fetal microdeletions from maternal plasma us...

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Main Authors: Stephanie C Y Yu, Peiyong Jiang, Kwong W Choy, Kwan Chee Allen Chan, Hye-Sung Won, Wing C Leung, Elizabeth T Lau, Mary H Y Tang, Tak Y Leung, Yuk Ming Dennis Lo, Rossa W K Chiu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3629174?pdf=render