title: Laboratory aspects of prenatal microarray analysis.
abstract: The recent development and clinical implementation of genomic microarrays has resulted in rapid and significant changes for postnatal studies in the field of cytogenetics. This article discusses the benefits and issues for the use of microarrays for prenatal genetic diagnosis. It includes sections on specimen processing, prenatal array design, the published prenatal microarray literature, and maternal cell contamination.
authors: Cytogenetics and Genomic Microarray Laboratory, ARUP Institute for Clinical and Experimental Pathology, Salt Lake City, UT, USA. allen.n.lamb@aruplab.com
authors: Allen N
authors: AN
authors: Lamb
mesh_terms: D055028:Comparative Genomic Hybridization / Q000379:methods*; D020732:Cytogenetic Analysis; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D020411:Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis / Q000379:methods*; D011247:Pregnancy; D011296:Prenatal Diagnosis / Q000379:methods*