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A 37-Year-Old Woman Is Concerned About Giving Birth to a Baby

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A 37-year-old woman is concerned about giving birth to a baby with Down syndrome, but she does not want to risk a miscarriage caused by genetic screening. She is not concerned about other genetic disorders. Which type of genetic screening would her doctor recommend?


A) Chorionic villus sampling
B) Amniocentesis
C) Cell-free fetal DNA analysis
D) None because older women have very low risk of giving birth to babies with Down syndrome
E) None because no genetic screening method outweighs the risk for miscarriage in women over age 30

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