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Down syndrome: prenatal screening and diagnosis

Canada

• Canadian Down Syndrome Society
  • Prenatal Screening for Fetal Aneuploidy: A Commentary by the Canadian Down Syndrome Society [2007]

Sweden

• Swedish Council on Technology Assessment in Health Care
  • Maternal serum screening for Down syndrome [2001]
  • Fetal nuchal translucency in early detection of Down´s syndrome [2001]

United States of America

• American College of Medical Genetics
  • Technical standards and guidelines: Prenatal screening for Down syndrome [2005]

• National Guideline Clearinghouse
  • Practice guidelines for communicating a prenatal or postnatal diagnosis of Down syndrome: recommendations of the National Society of Genetic Counselors [2011]

• National Society of Genetic Counselors
  • Practice Guidelines for Communicating a Prenatal or Postnatal Diagnosis of Down Syndrome: Recommendations of the National Society of Genetic Counselors [2011]

Articles in journals

• American Family Physician
  • Down Syndrome: Prenatal Risk Assessment and Diagnosis [2000]

• BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
  • Serum Screening with Down's Syndrome Markers to Predict Pre-eclampsia and Small for gestational age: Systematic Review and Meta-analysis. [2008]

• British Medical Journal
  • Impact of a new national screening policy for Down's syndrome in Denmark: population based cohort study [2009]
  • Comparison of different strategies in prenatal screening for Down's syndrome: cost effectiveness analysis of computer simulation [2009]

• Clinical Chemistry
  • Outcome Validation of the Beckman Coulter Access Analyzer in a Second-Trimester Down Syndrome Serum Screening Application [2003]

• Down Syndrome Research and Practice
  • Wrongful deaths and rightful lives – screening for Down syndrome [2008]

• Human Reproduction Update
  • An update on antenatal screening for Down's syndrome and specific implications for assisted reproduction pregnancies [2006]

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