Fetal nucleic acids in maternal plasma: Toward the development of noninvasive prenatal diagnosis of fetal chromosomal aneuploidies

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1137, Issue , 2008, Pages 140-143

  Lo, Y M Dennis ^a,b  

^a Li Ka Shing Institute of Health Sciences

^b CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Down syndrome; Epigenetics; Noninvasive prenatal diagnosis; Plasma DNA; Plasma RNA

Indexed keywords

FORMALDEHYDE; MESSENGER RNA; NUCLEIC ACID;

ANEUPLOIDY; CELL FREE SYSTEM; CONFERENCE PAPER; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DNA DETERMINATION; EPIGENETICS; FETUS; GENE DOSAGE; GENETIC MARKER; HUMAN; MATERNAL PLASMA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; QUANTITATIVE DIAGNOSIS; TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 52249093579     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1448.004     Document Type: Conference Paper

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