percutaneous umbilical blood sampling

medicine
Also known as: PUBS, cordocentesis, fetal blood sampling, foetal blood sampling, percutaneous umbilical cord sampling

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human genetic disease

  • BRCA2 tumor suppressor gene on chromosome 13
    In human genetic disease: Prenatal diagnosis

    Both percutaneous umbilical blood sampling (PUBS) and preimplantation testing are rare, relatively high-risk, and performed only in very unusual cases. Preimplantation testing of embryos derived by in vitro fertilization is a particularly new technique and is currently used only in cases of couples who are at…

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prenatal testing