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Clinical Perspective on Use of Long-Read Sequencing in Prenatal Diagnosis of Thalassemia.

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This is an editorial focusing on the clinical perspective of a long-read sequencing method in the prenatal diagnosis of alpha- and beta-thalassemia, including a comparison between this method and standard… Click to show full abstract

This is an editorial focusing on the clinical perspective of a long-read sequencing method in the prenatal diagnosis of alpha- and beta-thalassemia, including a comparison between this method and standard PCR-based methods. Though incremental, the increased sensitivity and specificity using long-read sequencing is an important advantage of this methodology in the prenatal diagnostic arena due to false positive or false negative results having greater consequence when a family is making decisions about their pregnancy.

Keywords: read sequencing; prenatal diagnosis; long read; clinical perspective

Journal Title: Clinical chemistry
Year Published: 2023

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