Non-invasive fetal genome sequencing: Opportunities and challenges

American Journal of Medical Genetics, Part A

Volumn 158 A, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 2382-2384

  Tabor, Holly K ^a,b   Murray, Jeffrey C ^c   Gammill, Hilary S ^a,d   Kitzman, Jacob O ^e   Snyder, Matthew W ^e   Ventura, Mario ^e,f   Lewis, Alexandra P ^e   Qiu, Ruolan ^e   Simmons, Lavone E ^a   Rubens, Craig E ^a,g   Santillan, Mark K ^h   Eichler, Evan E ^e,i   Cheng, Edith Y ^a   Bamshad, Michael J ^a,e   Shendure, Jay ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b SEATTLE CHILDREN S RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^d Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

^g Global Alliance to Prevent Prematurity and Stillbirth   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF IOWA HOSPITALS AND CLINICS   (United States)

ⁱ HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACMSD GENE; ARTICLE; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; GENE; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC DISORDER; GENETIC SCREENING; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN RIGHTS; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICAL GENETICS; NEUROFIBROMATOSIS; NON INVASIVE FETAL GENOME SEQUENCING; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; PARKINSON DISEASE; PREGNANCY TERMINATION; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCNA1 GENE; SEIZURE;

FEMALE; FETAL DISEASES; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84866480066     PISSN: 15524825     EISSN: 15524833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajmg.a.35545     Document Type: Article

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