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Abstract
Researchers have reported sequencing a fetal genome from cell-free fetal DNA in a pregnant woman's blood, heralding the possibility of performing whole-genome sequencing as early as the first trimester of pregnancy. This innovation raises ethical and policy questions.
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Title
Prenatal Whole-Genome Sequencing — Is the Quest to Know a Fetus's Future Ethical?
Author
Yurkiewicz, Ilana R; Korf, Bruce R; Lehmann, Lisa Soleymani 1
1 From Harvard Medical School (I.R.Y.) and the Center for Bioethics, Brigham and Women's Hospital (L.S.L.) — both in Boston; and the Department of Genetics, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham (B.R.K.).
1 From Harvard Medical School (I.R.Y.) and the Center for Bioethics, Brigham and Women's Hospital (L.S.L.) — both in Boston; and the Department of Genetics, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham (B.R.K.).
Pages
195-197
Section
Perspective
Publication year
2014
Publication date
Jan 16, 2014
Website
ISSN
00284793
e-ISSN
15334406
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
1477990821
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