Prenatal screening of down syndrome.

The present invention provides a method using polymerasa chain reaction (PCR) for detecting Down syndrom in the fetus of a pregnant woman by way of determining the increased concentration levels of supeoxide dismutase-1 (SOD-1) gene sequence in maternal extra-cellular body fluid. Accordingly, the pr...

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Main Authors: Rosli, Rozita, Karuppiah, Thilakavathy
Format: Patent
Published: 2006