title: Fetal magnetic resonance imaging and human genetics.
abstract: The use of fetal magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), in addition to prenatal genetic testing and sonography, has the potential to improve prenatal diagnosis of genetic disorders. MRI plays an important role in the evaluation of fetal abnormalities and malformations. Fetal MRI often enables a differential diagnosis, a determination of the extent of the disorder, the prognosis, and an improvement in therapeutic management. For counseling of parents, as well as to basically understand how genetic aberrations affect fetal development, it is of great importance to correlate different genotypes with fetal MRI data.
authors.affiliation: Medical Genetics, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Medical University of Vienna, Währinger Gürtel 18-20, 1090 Vienna, Austria. markus.hengstschlaeger@meduniwien.ac.at
authors.forename: Markus
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Hengstschläger
mesh_terms: D015415:Biomarkers / Q000032:analysis; D002869:Chromosome Aberrations / Q000196:embryology*; D002877:Chromosomes, Human; D005260:Female; D005315:Fetal Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000235:genetics*; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008967:Molecular Biology; D011247:Pregnancy; D011296:Prenatal Diagnosis
chemical_list: D015415:Biomarkers