BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 2018 Background In recent years, determination of personalized risk for fetal chromosomal anomalies emerged as an important component of prenatal genetic counseling. Women in whom fetal risk for chromosomal aberrations is elevated are offered further testing.
Pawel Sadlecki +3 more
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Abnormal plasma DNA profiles in early ovarian cancer using a non-invasive prenatal testing platform: Implications for cancer screening [PDF]
, 2016 Background: Non-invasive prenatal testing (NIPT) identifies fetal aneuploidy by sequencing cell-free DNA in the maternal plasma. Pre-symptomatic maternal malignancies have been incidentally detected during NIPT based on abnormal genomic profiles.
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Defending biomedical authority and regulating the womb as social space. Prenatal testing in the Polish press [PDF]
, 2010 The issue of abortion has been the topic of heated and frequent debate in post-Communist Poland. Parliamentary debate in 1998—9 centred around a legislative attempt to restrict prenatal testing, specifically amniocentesis, in order to further reduce the ...
Kramer, Anne-Marie Caroline
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Clinical and medico-legal reflections on non-invasive prenatal testing
Open MedicinePrenatal diagnosis has advanced dramatically, with both invasive and non-invasive techniques that enable a comprehensive evaluation of chromosomal and genetic disorders, thanks to considerable technological progress.
Gullo Giuseppe +10 more
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A review of evidence on non-invasive prenatal diagnosis (NIPD) : tests for fetal RHD genotype [PDF]
, 2007 This report concentrates on three main areas. First and foremost, we set the background context for RhD NIPD in prenatal care. While the methodology chapter describes how the literature review was carried out and how additional information was collected,
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A Right to Choose?: Sex Selection in the International Context [PDF]
, 2007 While there is some debate among doctors, ethicists, and the general public about the level of medical necessity that should justify a sex-selection procedure, most accept that sex selection for medical reasons is beyond ethical reproach, and in some ...
Bumgarner, Ashley
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Noninvasive prenatal diagnosis of 21-Hydroxylase deficiency using target capture sequencing of maternal plasma DNA. [PDF]
, 2017 Here, we aimed to validate a noninvasive method using capture sequencing for prenatal diagnosis of congenital adrenal hyperplasia due to 21-Hydroxylase deficiency (21-OHD).
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Non-invasive prenatal testing: a review of international implementation and challenges
International Journal of Women's Health, 2015 Megan Allyse,1 Mollie A Minear,2 Elisa Berson,3 Shilpa Sridhar,3 Margaret Rote,3 Anthony Hung,3 Subhashini Chandrasekharan4 1Institute for Health and Aging, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA, 2Duke Science & ...
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A qualitative study looking at informed choice in the context of non-invasive prenatal testing for aneuploidy [PDF]
, 2016 OBJECTIVE: To explore women's attitudes towards non-invasive prenatal testing (NIPT) and determine factors influencing their decisions around uptake of NIPT.
Chitty, LS, Hill, M, Lewis, C
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The Application of Clinical Genetics, 2016 Jean Gekas,1,2 Sylvie Langlois,3 Vardit Ravitsky,4 François Audibert,5 David Gradus van den Berg,6 Hazar Haidar,4 François Rousseau2,7 1Prenatal Diagnosis Unit, Department of Medical Genetics and Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, Universit ...
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