A noninvasive test to determine paternity in pregnancy

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 366, Issue 18, 2012, Pages 1743-1745

  Guo, Xin ^a   Bayliss, Philip ^b   Damewood, Marian ^c   Varney, John ^a   Ma, Emily ^a   Vallecillo, Brett ^a   Dhallan, Ravinder ^a  

^a Ravgen   (United States)

^b Penn Medicine Lancaster General Health Physicians Geriatrics   (United States)

^c YORK HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMNIOCENTESIS; CHORION VILLUS; DNA DETERMINATION; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; GESTATION PERIOD; HUMAN; LETTER; MATERNAL BLOOD; NON INVASIVE PROCEDURE; PATERNITY TEST; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY TERMINATION; PRENATAL SCREENING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAPE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; UNITED STATES; UNPLANNED PREGNANCY;

EID: 84860432504     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMc1113044     Document Type: Letter

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