Does maternal saliva contain fetal DNA usable for prenatal diagnostics?

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 74, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 258-260

  Vlková, Barbora ^a,b   Szemes, Tomáš ^a,b   Minárik, Gabriel ^a,b   Turňa, Ján ^b   Celec, Peter ^a,b  

^a Geneton Inc ^*  (Slovakia)

^b Physics and Informatics   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ARTICLE; DATA COLLECTION METHOD; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DNA CONTENT; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA FRAGMENTATION; DNA ISOLATION; ETHICAL DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; MOTHER FETUS RELATIONSHIP; NON INVASIVE PROCEDURE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREGNANT WOMAN; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALIVA ANALYSIS; Y CHROMOSOME;

DNA; FEMALE; GENETIC TESTING; HUMANS; MATERNAL-FETAL EXCHANGE; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; SALIVA;

EID: 72449174721     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2009.09.022     Document Type: Article

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