Are we ready for DNA methylation-based prenatal testing?

Epigenomics

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 387-390

  Yuen, Ryan K C ^a   Manokhina, Irina ^a   Robinson, Wendy P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

DNA methylation; placenta; pregnancy; prenatal diagnosis; variation

Indexed keywords

DNA; MESSENGER RNA; RHESUS D ANTIGEN;

ANEUPLOIDY; CELL CULTURE; DNA ISOLATION; DNA METHYLATION; GESTATIONAL AGE; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; HUMAN; HYPOXIA; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

AMNIOTIC FLUID; CHORIONIC VILLI; CONGENITAL ABNORMALITIES; DNA METHYLATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC;

EID: 80051962569     PISSN: 17501911     EISSN: 1750192X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2217/epi.11.62     Document Type: Review

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