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Psychological and social consequences of non-invasive prenatal testing (NIPT): a scoping review

BACKGROUND: Genomics-based noninvasive prenatal tests (NIPT) allow screening for chromosomal anomalies such as Down syndrome (trisomy 21). The technique uses cell-free fetal DNA (cffDNA) that circulates in the maternal blood and is detectable from 5 weeks of gestation onwards. Parents who choose to...

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Autores principales: Labonté, Valérie, Alsaid, Dima, Lang, Britta, Meerpohl, Joerg J.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6819451/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31660889
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12884-019-2518-x