Background: The most common chromosomal abnormalities are aneuploidies of chromosome 21, 18, 13, X and Y. Prenatal diagnosis of fetal aneuploidies is routinely done by traditional cytogenetic culture, ...
Purpose: To prospectively validate a quantitative fluorescent polymerase chain reaction (PCR) assay as a method of rapid prenatal aneuploidy detection for chromosomes 13, 18, 21, X, and Y. Methods: A ...
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