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Prenatal diagnosis
Author(s) -
Bobrow Martin
Publication year - 1988
Publication title -
journal of chemical technology and biotechnology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.64
H-Index - 117
eISSN - 1097-4660
pISSN - 0268-2575
DOI - 10.1002/jctb.280430408
Subject(s) - prenatal diagnosis , medicine , pregnancy , chromosome analysis , obstetrics , intensive care medicine , psychology , fetus , chromosome , biology , genetics , karyotype , gene
Congenital or genetic disorder may be diagnosed early in fetal life, allowing parental choice as to the continuation of the pregnancy. There are general low cost/low risk screening procedures, and more precisely targetted diagnostic procedures. The techniques used include ultrasound, chromosome and biochemical analysis. The range of diagnosable disorders has been greatly extended by the advent of DNA‐based gene analysis techniques. Ethical and emotional issues are of considerable and continuing importance. The hazards of prenatal diagnosis are misdiagnosis, misinterpretation, and misapplication, and no qualitatively different issues have been introduced by the advent of new biotechnologies.