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See Latest ArticlesDoes maternal saliva contain fetal DNA usable for prenatal diagnostics
Medical Hypotheses, 10/16/09
Vlkov B et al. – The hypothesis is testable using saliva samples of pregnant women with confirmed male fetuses. Y–specific sequences should be detectable in salivary DNA. Caution must be given to the prevention of contamination. If proved in large studies, the presence of fetal DNA fragments in maternal saliva would enable a wide range of applications in prenatal medicine.
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