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PROVIDER: EGAD00001000395 | EGA |
REPOSITORIES: EGA
Yu Stephanie C Y SC Jiang Peiyong P Choy Kwong W KW Chan Kwan Chee Allen KC Won Hye-Sung HS Leung Wing C WC Lau Elizabeth T ET Tang Mary H Y MH Leung Tak Y TY Lo Yuk Ming Dennis YM Chiu Rossa W K RW
PloS one 20130417 4
Fetal DNA is present in the plasma of pregnant women. Massively parallel sequencing of maternal plasma DNA has been used to detect fetal trisomies 21, 18, 13 and selected sex chromosomal aneuploidies noninvasively. Case reports describing the detection of fetal microdeletions from maternal plasma using massively parallel sequencing have been reported. However, these previous reports were either polymorphism-dependent or used statistical analyses which were confined to one or a small number of se ...[more]