PMID: 9417534Jan 7, 1998Paper

Prenatal diagnosis of triploidy and trisomy 21 through fetal erythroblasts isolated from maternal blood

Minerva medica
A PezzoloP De Biasio

Abstract

A long-sought goal of medical genetics has been the development of prenatal diagnostic procedures that do not endanger the conceptus. The safety of noninvasive methods for prenatal diagnosis would be especially attractive because they could be extended to all pregnant women, regardless of their ages or histories. Noninvasive prenatal diagnosis for the entire population might be possible recovering fetal cells from maternal blood. For this purpose, we have studied fetal erythroblasts. To evaluate the potential of the method for clinical use, we studied maternal blood samples from 11 women referred to us for prenatal diagnosis between 15 and 20 weeks of gestation. For simple and effective enrichment of fetal nucleated erythrocytes from peripheral maternal blood, we combined a triple density gradient and magnetic-activated cell sorting (MACS) of anti-CD71 transferrin receptor antibody labeled cells. The isolated cells were analysed by using dual-colour interphase fluorescent in situ hybridization (FISH) with X-, Y-, 18- and 21-specific DNA probes. Chromosomal abnormalities detected on enriched fetal cells include trisomy 21 and triploidy. Based on the current results it is suggested that the technique described here is a simple, f...Continue Reading

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