Analysis of fetal sex in TCC sample DNA: A contribution to the validation of this approach

Prenatal Diagnosis

Volumn 18, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 1109-1116

  Falcinelli, Cristina ^a   Battafarano, Santina ^a   Neri, Claudia ^a   Mazza, Vincenzo ^a   Ranzi, Andrea ^a   Forabosco, Antonino ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Fetal sexing; Non invasive prenatal diagnosis; Transcervical cell samples

Indexed keywords

CELL DNA;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FETUS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MUCUS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DETERMINATION; UTERINE CERVIX;

CERVIX MUCUS; CERVIX UTERI; CYTOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; DNA; FEMALE; FETUS; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREGNANCY; SEX DETERMINATION (GENETICS); SPECIMEN HANDLING; SUCTION;

EID: 0031762756     PISSN: 01973851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0223(199811)18:11<1109::AID-PD415>3.0.CO;2-L     Document Type: Article

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