Detecting fetal DNA from dried maternal blood spots: Another step towards broad scale non-invasive prenatal genetic screening and feasible testing

Reproductive BioMedicine Online

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 349-351

  Bischoff, Farideh Z ^a   Dang, Dianne X ^a   Marquez Do, Deborah ^a   Martinez, Denisse ^a   Horne, Cassandra ^a   Lewis, Dorothy E ^a   Simpson, Joe Leigh ^a  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cell free fetal DNA; Dried blood spots; Non invasive prenatal diagnosis; Real time PCR

Indexed keywords

DNA; GLYCERALDEHYDE 3 PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DETERMINATION; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS CELL; FETUS DISEASE; GENDER; GENETIC SCREENING; HUMAN; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MATERNAL BLOOD; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; RELIABILITY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; Y CHROMOSOME;

EID: 0038575284     PISSN: 14726483     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1472-6483(10)61856-1     Document Type: Article

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