Noninvasive Prenatal Diagnosis of Fetal Trisomy 18 and Trisomy 13 by Maternal Plasma DNA Sequencing

Massively parallel sequencing of DNA molecules in the plasma of pregnant women has been shown to allow accurate and noninvasive prenatal detection of fetal trisomy 21. However, whether the sequencing approach is as accurate for the noninvasive prenatal diagnosis of trisomy 13 and 18 is unclear due t...

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Main Authors: Chen, Eric Z., Chiu, Rossa W. K., Sun, Hao, Akolekar, Ranjit, Chan, K. C. Allen, Leung, Tak Y., Jiang, Peiyong, Zheng, Yama W. L., Lun, Fiona M. F., Chan, Lisa Y. S., Jin, Yongjie, Go, Attie T. J. I., Lau, Elizabeth T., To, William W. K., Leung, Wing C., Tang, Rebecca Y. K., Au-Yeung, Sidney K. C., Lam, Helena, Kung, Yu Y., Zhang, Xiuqing, van Vugt, John M. G., Minekawa, Ryoko, Tang, Mary H. Y., Wang, Jun, Oudejans, Cees B. M., Lau, Tze K., Nicolaides, Kypros H., Lo, Y. M. Dennis
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science 2011
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3130771/