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Non-invasive prenatal diagnostics

Class at Third Faculty of Medicine |
CCOC6945

Syllabus

Prenatal diagnosis - non-invasive methods. Molecular biology methods in prenatal diagnosis.

Annotation

The non-invasive prenatal diagnosis course gives applicants informations about new possibilities to obtain genetic informations about fetus during pregnancy from mothers periferal blood. These informations could be determine thanks to presence of fetal nucleic acids ( DNA and RNA ) in mothers circulation during pregnancy.

The origin of fetal nucleic acids are the apoptotic elements of placental trophoblast, which release to mothers circulation by the remodelation of placent by sequel of apoptosis.