Circulating cell-free fetal nucleic acid analysis may be a novel marker of fetomaternal hemorrhage after elective first-trimester termination of pregnancy

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1022, Issue , 2004, Pages 129-134

  Wataganara, Tuangsit ^a   Leshane, Erik S ^a   Chen, Angela Y ^d   Sullivan, Lisa M ^c   Peter, Inga ^a   Borgatta, Lynn ^b   Johnson, Kirby L ^a   Bianchi, Diana W ^a  

^a TUFTS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d NONE

Author keywords

Fetal DNA; Fetal gene expression; Fetomaternal hemorrhage; Therapeutic abortion; globin mRNA

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; DNA; GLOBIN MESSENGER RNA; NUCLEIC ACID; RNA;

CELL FREE SYSTEM; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERYTHROID CELL; FEMALE; FETOMATERNAL TRANSFUSION; FETUS; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEMATOPOIESIS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MATERNAL PLASMA; NUCLEIC ACID ANALYSIS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PREGNANCY TERMINATION; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 3242664153     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1318.021     Document Type: Conference Paper

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