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Cahiers Droit, Sciences & Technologies, 2022 Fetal DNA tests, also known as non-invasive prenatal testing (NIPT), can detect abnormalities in fetuses. When they began to be used in France, the Ministry of Health asked an agency, the Haute Autorité de santé, to assess them.
Carine Vassy
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Disability Studies Quarterly, 2020 This article analyzes recent state laws and legislative debates in the United States concerning the prohibition of abortions performed because of a diagnosis of fetal disability.
Jennifer M. Denbow
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Fragmentomic cfDNA Patterns in Noninvasive Prenatal Testing and Beyond
Journal of Biomedicine and Translational Research, 2021 The release of fetoplacental cell-free DNA (cfDNA) into the maternal bloodstream opened up new avenues towards noninvasive prenatal testing (NIPT) for aneuploidies, hereditary DNA mutations and other pregnancy-related developmental disorders ...
Kavish Kohabir +2 more
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Knowledge is power? : the role of experiential knowledge in genetically 'risky' reproductive decisions [PDF]
, 2014 Knowledge of the condition being tested for is increasingly acknowledged as an important factor in prenatal testing and screening decisions. An analysis of the way in which family members living with an inheritable condition use and value this knowledge ...
Boardman, Felicity K.
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Frontiers in GeneticsSex discordance between cell-free DNA (cfDNA) testing and ultrasound examination is rare but can cause significant patient discomfort and uncertainty.
Nuria Balaguer +6 more
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Clinical and Cost Impact Analysis of a Novel Prognostic Test for Early Detection of Preterm Birth
American Journal of Perinatology Reports, 2016 Objective The objective of this study was to evaluate the potential impact to the U.S. health care system by adopting a novel test that identifies women at risk for spontaneous preterm birth.
Aaron B. Caughey +5 more
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Prenatal diagnosis: A connotation on genetic counseling being indispensable
Indian Journal of Public Health, 2020 Prenatal testing and diagnosis are gaining a strong foothold in a progressively developing country like India, and an estimated boom in the market of noninvasive prenatal testing is predicted by the year 2024.
Anuradha Ramesh +1 more
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Perinatal outcomes of prenatal cases testing positive for trisomy 9 by noninvasive prenatal testing
Taiwanese Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology, 2022 Objectives: To evaluate the performance of non-invasive prenatal testing (NIPT) for the detection of fetal trisomy 9 in prenatal screening and to investigate the prenatal appearances and genetic counseling of trisomy 9 fetuses. Materials and methods: The
Hui Li +9 more
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The Routinization of Prenatal Testing
American Journal of Law & Medicine, 2002 By now everyone is familiar with the recent accomplishments of the Human Genome Project. Accomplished in ten, rather than the initially expected fifteen, years, the human genome has been fully sequenced. Genetics is in its golden age. A product of the technology era, genetics has, in a short time, offered vast amounts of information.
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Laughter as medical providers' resource : negotiating informed choice in prenatal genetic counseling [PDF]
, 2011 This article aims to challenge the perception that in medical encounters laughter is an interactional resource primarily employed by patients. Drawing on 34 video-recorded prenatal genetic counseling (PGC) sessions collected in a Hong Kong hospital, and ...
Schnurr, S +5 more
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