Validation of QF-PCR for prenatal aneuploidy screening in the United States

Prenatal Diagnosis

Volumn 26, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 1068-1074

  Brown, Lucia ^a   Abigania, Melissa ^a   Warburton, Dorothy ^a   Brown, Stephen ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

Aneuploidy; FISH; Prenatal diagnosis; QF PCR

Indexed keywords

AMNION FLUID; ANEUPLOIDY; ARTICLE; CHORION VILLUS; CLINICAL TRIAL; GENETIC SCREENING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AMNIOTIC FLUID; ANEUPLOIDY; CHORIONIC VILLI SAMPLING; DNA PRIMERS; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; HUMANS; MICROWAVES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; TRISOMY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33751347059     PISSN: 01973851     EISSN: 10970223     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pd.1558     Document Type: Article

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