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If chorionic villi sampling (CVS) is to become an established procedure for the diagnosis of genetic disease in the first trimester of pregnancy, two critical issues must be resolved: the safety of the sampling procedure and the accuracy of the genetic analysis of the villi.
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Pergament, E., Verlinsky, Y., Ginsberg, N.A., Cadkin, A., Brandt, T. (1985). Assessment of the Safety and Accuracy of Chorionic Villi Sampling in First Trimester Fetal Diagnosis. In: Fraccaro, M., Simoni, G., Brambati, B. (eds) First Trimester Fetal Diagnosis. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-70707-0_49
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