Session date: 
05/04/2016 - 11:30am to 12:30pm

Title: Non-Invasive Prenatal Screening (NIPS) at Mayo Clinic

Speaker(s): W. Edward Highsmith, Jr., Ph.D. & Nicole Lynn Hoppman, Ph.D.

Objectives:

  1. Understand the principle of the NGS counting method for the identification of fetal trisomies in cell-free DNA from maternal circulation.
  2. To appreciate the intricacies of assay verification when developing a NIPS assay
  3. To understand what the fetal fraction is, how it is measured, and why it is important

Audience: DLMP Staff

Credit information for DLMP Grand Rounds can be found at https://ce.mayo.edu/dlmp-grand-rounds-2016/node/6748  

Each monthly session will be reviewed for credit; if a session does meet the credit criteria, it will be announced as such.

 

 

 

Presenter: 
W. Edward Highsmith, Jr., Ph.D. and Nicole Lynn Hoppman, Ph.D.
Where did the idea for the course originate?: 
Minnesota
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Where did the idea for the course originate?: 
Minnesota