Pap Smear May Offer Noninvasive Prenatal Screening in Early Pregnancy (IMAGE)

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Pap Smear May Offer Noninvasive Prenatal Screening in Early Pregnancy

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Comparison of approaches to obtain fetal DNA in ongoing pregnancies, including amniocentesis, chorionic villous sampling (CVS), cell-free fetal DNA, and trophoblast retrieval isolation from the cervix (TRIC).

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Jain <i>et al., Science Translational Medicine</i> (2016)

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