Down syndrome blood test will determine

Quick and inexpensive blood test for the presence of Down's syndrome developed by British scientists. It is focused on pregnant women. With the present test will be highly likely to detect the presence or absence of the disease in children.

The developed procedure is inexpensive and available in all health facilities. British scientists plan that in four years it will be able to take pregnant women throughout the country. As experts say, the existing methods determining the presence of Down's syndrome the child is not very effective. They provide a significant percentage of errors. Fresh blood test   will receive information on the DNA of mothers and children and to determine whether there is a disease. It can be used, starting from six weeks of pregnancy. Modern tests focused on the gestational age of 15-20 weeks.

The new method, there are critics. Their main argument: new blood test   on determination the presence of Down syndrome   significantly increase the number of mothers who decided to get rid of the child and to terminate the pregnancy. The number of abortions does not decrease, but rather increase. Many physicians generally considered unethical similar procedures.

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