Noninvasive prenatal detection for pathogenic CNVs: the application in α-thalassemia.

BACKGROUND: The discovery of cell free fetal DNA (cff-DNA) in maternal plasma has brought new insight for noninvasive prenatal diagnosis. Combining with the rapidly developed massively parallel sequencing technology, noninvasive prenatal detection of chromosome aneuploidy and single base variation h...

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Main Authors: Huijuan Ge, Xuan Huang, Xuchao Li, Shengpei Chen, Jing Zheng, Haojun Jiang, Chunlei Zhang, Xiaoyu Pan, Jing Guo, Fang Chen, Ning Chen, Qun Fang, Hui Jiang, Wei Wang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3696090?pdf=render