Cell-free fetal DNA and intact fetal cells in maternal blood circulation: Implications for first and second trimester non-invasive prenatal diagnosis

Human Reproduction Update

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 493-500

  Bischoff, Farideh Z ^a   Sinacori, Mina K ^a   Dang, Diane D ^a   Marquez Do, Deborah ^a   Horne, Cassandra ^a   Lewis, Dorothy E ^a   Simpson, Jo Leigh ^a  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cell free fetal DNA in maternal plasma; Fetal cells in maternal blood; Fetal chromosomal aneuploidy; Non invasive prenatal diagnosis; Real time quantitative PCR

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ANEUPLOIDY; CELL FREE SYSTEM; CELL GROWTH; CELL ISOLATION; CIRCULATION; DNA DETERMINATION; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENRICHMENT CULTURE; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS CELL; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MALE; MATERNAL BLOOD; MATERNAL PLASMA; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVIEW; SECOND TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRISOMY 21; BLOOD; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CYTOLOGY; DOWN SYNDROME; GENETICS; GESTATIONAL AGE; PREGNANCY;

ANEUPLOIDY; CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; DNA; DOWN SYNDROME; FEMALE; FETUS; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, FIRST; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, SECOND; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS;

EID: 0036864219     PISSN: 13554786     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/humupd/8.6.493     Document Type: Review

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