For instance, there are
now prenatal tests that can signal the possibility of a 22q11.2 deletion as early as the first trimester of pregnancy.
Not exact matches
Now if they ever develop a
prenatal test for becoming Republican, that could be a problem.
Prenatal testing of other characteristics means that parents can
now abort a baby that does not meet their specifications and try again.
Prenatal whole - genome sequencing will provide volumes of information beyond the currently available
tests for genetic disorders such as Down's syndrome or Tay - Sachs disease — assays that parents
now use to decide how to respond to a pregnancy.
«With cancer, there's evidence both ways,» says Bianchi, who is
now researching how fetal DNA and RNA in a mother's blood could be used for
prenatal testing.
Noninvasive
prenatal testing (NIPT) by maternal plasma DNA sequencing is
now clinically available for screening fetal chromosomal aneuploidies; these
tests have close to 99 % sensitivity..