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• Autores: Melinda Wenner Moyer
• Localización: Scientific American, ISSN 0036-8733, Vol. 304, Nº. 4, 2011, págs. 27-27
• Idioma: inglés
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  • The article discusses breakthroughs in medical technology resulting in the development of noninvasive prenatal tests that can diagnose genetic diseases before birth using maternal blood samples. Topics include an overview of what makes the noninvasive test possible, such as the free floating copies of the fetus' genes in the mother's blood, and results from research testing a method of sequencing individual fetal genes using maternal blood to look for mutations or chromosomal abnormalities.