DNA blood test can cut invasive testing for Down's syndrome by 98 percent

Tuesday, January 11, 2011 - 19:00 in Health & Medicine

Women in high risk pregnancies for Down's syndrome could have a DNA blood test to detect the disorder and avoid invasive procedures such as amniocentesis or chorionic villus sampling, finds a large scale study published in the British Medical Journal today.

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