A microarray approach for systematic identification of placental-derived RNA markers in maternal plasma

Methods in Molecular Biology

Volumn 444, Issue , 2008, Pages 275-289

  Tsui, Nancy B Y ^a   Lo, Y M Dennis ^a  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Circulating fetal RNA; Circulating placental RNA; Fetal marker identification; Microarray; Noninvasive gene expression profiling; Noninvasive prenatal diagnosis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84934444003     PISSN: 10643745     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-59745-66-9_22     Document Type: Article

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