ORIGINAL RESEARCH

Quantification of fetal DNA in the plasma of pregnant women using next generation sequencing of frequent single nucleotide polymorphisms

Shubina J1,2, Jankevic T2, Goltsov AYu2, Mukosey IS, Kochetkova TO, Bystritsky AA, Barkov IYu, Tetruashvili NK, Kim LV, Trofimov DYu2
About authors

1 Kulakov National Medical Research Center for Obstetrics, Gynecology and Perinatology, Moscow, Russia

2 DNA-Technology LLC, Moscow, Russia

Correspondence should be addressed: Jekaterina Shubina
Akademika Oparina 4, Moscow, 117997; moc.liamg@anibuhs.aniretakej

About paper

Funding: this work was supported by the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation (Agreement 14.607.21.0136, Project ID RFMEFI60715X0136).

Received: 2018-04-15 Accepted: 2018-04-18 Published online: 2018-08-11
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