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Enhancement of amniotic fluid cell growth for genetic amniocentesis
1Division of Genetics, Long Island College Hospital, SUNY Health Science Center, Brooklyn.
Clinical Genetics
|September 1, 1991
Abstract:
The last two decades have witnessed a logarithmic growth in demand for prenatal diagnosis of human disease through amniocentesis. Consequently, culture turn-around-time has become the major concern of all those who are primary care providers for patients seeking help. We report a rapid method for obtaining cytogenetic results from amniocytes as early as 5 days. Early tapping and reducing the turn-around-time during cytogenetic analysis may provide an alternative to chorionic villi sampling.