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Maternal cell contamination (MCC) poses a risk for misdiagnosis in prenatal genetic testing, and is examined in accredited diagnostic laboratories However, the awareness of possible MCC in perinatal/postnatal genetic testing, mainly of umbilical cord blood (CB), is lower.
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