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Commentary on sickle cell nonāinvasive prenatal testing article.
- Source :
- British Journal of Haematology; Jul2020, Vol. 190 Issue 1, p20-21, 2p
- Publication Year :
- 2020
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Abstract
- In a seminal Lancet paper published in 1997, Dennis Lo, a clinical biochemist from Hong Kong working in Oxford with Jim Wainscoat, defined a technique that would transform the future of prenatal diagnosis (PND). This made it possible to simply collect a blood sample from a pregnant woman and identify unique fetal DNA characteristics from it, without needing invasive PND, which carries a 0-5-1% risk of miscarriage. To identify a fetal-origin point mutation from a sea of maternal DNA, 50% of which contain the same mutation, made it impossible to diagnose fetal disease without having access to DNA material from the father or siblings. [Extracted from the article]
- Subjects :
- PRENATAL diagnosis
SICKLE cell anemia
FETAL diseases
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00071048
- Volume :
- 190
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- British Journal of Haematology
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 144299621
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1111/bjh.16566