Fetal cell-free nucleic acids in the maternal circulation: New clinical applications

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1022, Issue , 2004, Pages 90-99

  Wataganara, Tuangsit ^a   Bianchi, Diana W ^a,b  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b TUFTS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cell free nucleic acids; Fetal DNA; Maternal plasma; Preeclampsia

Indexed keywords

DNA; GAMMA GLOBIN; MESSENGER RNA; NUCLEIC ACID;

AMNION FLUID; ANEUPLOIDY; BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER; BLOOD CELL; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CIRCULATION; COMPARATIVE GENOMIC HYBRIDIZATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; DISEASE COURSE; DNA DETERMINATION; DOWN SYNDROME; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FETOMATERNAL TRANSFUSION; FETUS; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; GENE ISOLATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC SCREENING; GENOME; GENOME ANALYSIS; HUMAN; MATERNAL PLASMA; MEASUREMENT; PERFORMANCE; PLACENTA; PREECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PRENATAL PERIOD; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SCREENING; SECOND TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STANDARD; SYMPTOM; TRISOMY 13; TRISOMY 18; TRISOMY 21; TWIN TWIN TRANSFUSION SYNDROME;

EID: 3242694973     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1318.015     Document Type: Conference Paper

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