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What conditions may noninvasive prenatal testing (NIPT) screen for and what is it?
Finding out if a fetus has a genetic abnormality at birth is possible using noninvasive prenatal testing (NIPT), also known as noninvasive prenatal screening (NIPS). Little DNA fragments that are circulating in a pregnant woman’s blood are analyzed by this test. These fragments are known as cell-free DNA (cfDNA) because they are free-floating and not…
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