Digital PCR: a powerful new tool for noninvasive prenatal diagnosis?

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Published in Prenat Diagn on December 01, 2008

Authors

Bernhard G Zimmermann1, Simon Grill, Wolfgang Holzgreve, Xiao Yan Zhong, Laird G Jackson, Sinuhe Hahn

Author Affiliations

1: Fluidigm Corporation, South San Francisco, USA.

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