Prenatal Screening

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Prenatal Screening

• Incorporating DNA sequencing into current prenatal screening practice for Down's syndrome
  Wald NJ & Bestwick JP PLoS One 2013;8(3):e58732
• Maternal plasma sequencing: a powerful tool towards fetal whole genome recovery.
  Papageorgiou EA, et al. BMC Med. 2013 Feb 27;11(1):56.
• Non-invasive prenatal testing with cell-free DNA: US physician attitudes toward implementation in clinical practice
  Musci TJ, et al. Prenat Diagn 2013 Mar:1-5