Determination of fetal DNA fraction from the plasma of pregnant women using sequence read counts

This study introduces a novel method, referred to as SeqFF, for estimating the fetal DNA fraction in the plasma of pregnant women and to infer the underlying mechanism that allows for such statistical modeling.

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