Mother’s Blood Biomarkers for Fetal Genomics
January 25, 2011 | Terry Sharrer
It’s an astonishing discovery-a fetus’s entire genome is present in the mother’s blood. Small fragments of fetal DNA in maternal blood have been known to exist for a decade or more, but geneticists at Baylor College of Medicine have shown that the entire fetal genome exists in the mother’s blood and will become practical to analyze once whole genome sequencing is reasonably priced. Both current methods for fetal genetic testing are invasive-amniocentesis and chorionic villus sampling. MORE AND STILL MORE
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