New Prenatal Test, Microarray, Proposed as Standard of Care

Wednesday, December 5, 2012 - 18:00 in Health & Medicine

A large, multi-center clinical trial led by Columbia University Medical Center shows that a new genetic test resulted in significantly more clinically relevant information than the current standard method of prenatal testing. The test uses microarray to conduct a comprehensive examination of a fetus's DNA. Results will be in the 12/6/12 issue of NEJM.

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