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Since the mid 80s chorionic villi sampling (CVS) has become an important and powerful procedure in prenatal diagnosis. In this chapter, the abbreviation CVS is used in the common, broader sense including also the analysis of the extracted tissue.
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Wegner, RD., Toennies, H. (1999). Chorionic Villi Sampling. In: Wegner, RD. (eds) Diagnostic Cytogenetics. Springer Lab Manual. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-59918-7_13
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