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SUBMITTER: Kinde I
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3399813 | biostudies-literature | 2012
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Kinde Isaac I Papadopoulos Nickolas N Kinzler Kenneth W KW Vogelstein Bert B
PloS one 20120718 7
Massively parallel sequencing of cell-free, maternal plasma DNA was recently demonstrated to be a safe and effective screening method for fetal chromosomal aneuploidies. Here, we report an improved sequencing method achieving significantly increased throughput and decreased cost by replacing laborious sequencing library preparation steps with PCR employing a single primer pair designed to amplify a discrete subset of repeated regions. Using this approach, samples containing as little as 4% triso ...[more]