Prenatal Genetic Diagnosis: Current Status

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In this issue of the Journal Mahoney et al. report the diagnosis of Duchenne's muscular dystrophy with use of fetal plasma obtained during fetoscopy. This advance is notable because it adds to the growing list of genetic disorders amenable to prenatal diagnosis and further illustrates the use of fetoscopy and fetal-blood sampling. It also typifies the collaborative effort required for the development of methods for prenatal diagnosis and the complicated nature of such investigations.Prenatal genetic diagnosis is unusual in clinical medicine in that critical decisions are based on laboratory diagnosis without physical examination of the patient. Fetoscopy offers the . . .

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