Ethical and legal aspects of noninvasive prenatal genetic diagnosis

International Journal of Gynecology and Obstetrics

Volumn 124, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 181-184

  Dickens, Bernard M ^a,b  

^a at the University of Toronto Wagner is also a faculty member of the Canadian Medical Associations' Physician Management Institute   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cell free fetal DNA testing; Ethics of fetal testing; Fetal genetic diagnosis; Genetic counseling; Noninvasive fetal testing; Termination of pregnancy; Whole genome sequencing

Indexed keywords

CELL FREE FETAL DNA; DNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMNIOCENTESIS; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER SUSCEPTIBILITY; CELL FREE SYSTEM; CHORION VILLUS SAMPLING; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; DNA ISOLATION; ETHICS; FETUS RISK; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC COUNSELING; GENETIC SCREENING; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; HANDICAPPED CHILD; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEREDITY; HIGH RISK PREGNANCY; HUMAN; INFORMED CONSENT; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; INVESTMENT; LEGAL ASPECT; MATERNAL BLOOD; MEDICAL INFORMATION; NEGLIGENCE; NON INVASIVE PROCEDURE; PATIENT AUTONOMY; PATIENT DECISION MAKING; PATIENT RIGHT; PREGNANT WOMAN; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE; REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; WRONGFUL BIRTH;

CELL-FREE FETAL DNA TESTING; ETHICS OF FETAL TESTING; FETAL GENETIC DIAGNOSIS; GENETIC COUNSELING; NONINVASIVE FETAL TESTING; TERMINATION OF PREGNANCY; WHOLE-GENOME SEQUENCING;

CELL-FREE SYSTEM; DNA; ETHICS, MEDICAL; FEMALE; FETAL DISEASES; GENETIC COUNSELING; GENETIC DISEASES, INBORN; GENETIC TESTING; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; JURISPRUDENCE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, FIRST; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; TRUTH DISCLOSURE;

EID: 84892371354     PISSN: 00207292     EISSN: 18793479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijgo.2013.11.001     Document Type: Article

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