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Expanded non-invasive prenatal diagnostics

Nature Medicine volume 25, pages 361–362 (2019)Cite this article

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Non-invasive prenatal diagnostics allow for the successful identification of paternally inherited and de novo mongenic diseases using circulating cell-free DNA.

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Fig. 1: Non-invasive prenatal genetic testing for mongenic disease.

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  1. Division of Genomic Diagnostics, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA

    Nancy B. Spinner

  2. Department of Pathology, The Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA

    Nancy B. Spinner

  3. Division of Human Genetics, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA

    Ian D. Krantz

  4. Department of Pediatrics, The Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA

    Ian D. Krantz

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Spinner, N.B., Krantz, I.D. Expanded non-invasive prenatal diagnostics. Nat Med 25, 361–362 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41591-019-0386-6

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