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Nature Reviews Genetics 10, 515 (1 August 2009) | doi:10.1038/nrg2631

An offer you can't refuse? Ethical implications of non-invasive prenatal diagnosis

Dagmar Schmitz , Christian Netzer & Wolfram Henn

Genetic prenatal diagnosis (PND) for fetal aneuploidies has been an integral part of prenatal medicine for over 30 years. It is usually performed as a combination of initial non-invasive risk screening (NIRS) strategies, and suspicious results are followed by invasive diagnostic procedures such as amniocentesis.