By: Ilana R. Yurkiewicz, BS, Bruce R. Korf, MD, PhD, and Lisa Soleymani Lehmann, MD, PhD
New England Journal of Medicine
January 16, 2014
Researchers have reported sequencing a fetal genome from cell-free fetal DNA in a pregnant woman’s blood, heralding the possibility of performing whole-genome sequencing as early as the first trimester of pregnancy. This innovation raises ethical and policy questions.
