New technique could expand number of diseases detected by non=invasive prenatal testing
Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine developed a method to expand the types of chromosomal abnormalities that non-invasive prenatal testing (NIPT) can detect. The study uses a semiconductor sequencing platform to identify small chromosomal deletions or duplications, such as occur in Cri du Chat Syndrome and DiGeorge Syndrome, with a […]
