Non-invasive prenatal testing: ethical issues explored
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Genomics-based non-invasive prenatal screening using cell-free DNA (cfDNA screening) was proposed to reduce the number of invasive procedures in current prenatal diagnosis for fetal aneuploidies. We review here the clinical and ethical issues of cfDNA screening. To date, it is not clear how cfDNA screening is going to impact the performances of clinical prenatal diagnosis and how it could be in...
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عنوان ژورنال: European Journal of Human Genetics
سال: 2009
ISSN: 1018-4813,1476-5438
DOI: 10.1038/ejhg.2009.203