Improvement in Sensitivity of Allele-specific PCR Facilitates Reliable Noninvasive Prenatal Detection of Cystic Fibrosis
Author(s) -
Ourania Nasis,
Shanel M. Thompson,
Tom A. Hong,
Margaret Sherwood,
Shawn Radcliffe,
Laird Jackson,
Tomas Otevrel
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
clinical chemistry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.705
H-Index - 218
eISSN - 1530-8561
pISSN - 0009-9147
DOI - 10.1373/clinchem.2003.025981
Subject(s) - allele , biology , chorionic villus sampling , cystic fibrosis , polymerase chain reaction , microbiology and biotechnology , cold pcr , variants of pcr , mutation , genetics , prenatal diagnosis , taq polymerase , point mutation , fetus , gene , pregnancy , thermus aquaticus
Cell-free fetal DNA circulating in maternal blood has potential as a safer alternative to invasive methods of prenatal testing for paternally inherited genetic alterations, such as cystic fibrosis (CF) mutations.
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