Non-invasive prenatal testing: a review of international implementation and challenges

M Allyse, MA Minear, E Berson, S Sridhar… - … journal of women's …, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
Noninvasive prenatal genetic testing (NIPT) is an advance in the detection of fetal
chromosomal aneuploidies that analyzes cell-free fetal DNA in the blood of a pregnant …

The accuracy of cell‐free fetal DNA‐based non‐invasive prenatal testing in singleton pregnancies: a systematic review and bivariate meta‐analysis

FL Mackie, K Hemming, S Allen… - … Journal of Obstetrics …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Background Cell‐free fetal DNA (cff DNA) non‐invasive prenatal testing (NIPT) is rapidly
expanding, and is being introduced at varying rates depending on country and condition …

Non-invasive prenatal sequencing for multiple Mendelian monogenic disorders using circulating cell-free fetal DNA

J Zhang, J Li, JB Saucier, Y Feng, Y Jiang, J Sinson… - Nature medicine, 2019 - nature.com
Current non-invasive prenatal screening is targeted toward the detection of chromosomal
abnormalities in the fetus,. However, screening for many dominant monogenic disorders …

[HTML][HTML] Fundamentals of multiplexing with digital PCR

AS Whale, JF Huggett, S Tzonev - Biomolecular detection and quantification, 2016 - Elsevier
Over the past decade numerous publications have demonstrated how digital PCR (dPCR)
enables precise and sensitive quantification of nucleic acids in a wide range of applications …

Non‐invasive prenatal diagnosis of achondroplasia and thanatophoric dysplasia: next‐generation sequencing allows for a safer, more accurate, and comprehensive …

LS Chitty, S Mason, AN Barrett, F McKay… - Prenatal …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Objective Accurate prenatal diagnosis of genetic conditions can be challenging and usually
requires invasive testing. Here, we demonstrate the potential of next‐generation sequencing …

Current overview of osteogenesis imperfecta

M Deguchi, S Tsuji, D Katsura, K Kasahara, F Kimura… - Medicina, 2021 - mdpi.com
Osteogenesis imperfecta (OI), or brittle bone disease, is a heterogeneous disorder
characterised by bone fragility, multiple fractures, bone deformity, and short stature. OI is a …

Noninvasive prenatal screening for genetic diseases using massively parallel sequencing of maternal plasma DNA

LS Chitty, YMD Lo - Cold Spring Harbor …, 2015 - perspectivesinmedicine.cshlp.org
The identification of cell-free fetal DNA (cffDNA) in maternal plasma in 1997 heralded the
most significant change in obstetric care for decades, with the advent of safer screening and …

Non-invasive prenatal diagnosis (NIPD): how analysis of cell-free DNA in maternal plasma has changed prenatal diagnosis for monogenic disorders

B Hanson, E Scotchman, LS Chitty… - Clinical …, 2022 - portlandpress.com
Cell-free fetal DNA (cffDNA) is released into the maternal circulation from trophoblastic cells
during pregnancy, is detectable from 4 weeks and is representative of the entire fetal …

Universal haplotype-based noninvasive prenatal testing for single gene diseases

WWI Hui, P Jiang, YK Tong, WS Lee… - Clinical …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
BACKGROUND Researchers have developed approaches for the noninvasive prenatal
testing of single gene diseases. One approach that allows for the noninvasive assessment of …

Noninvasive prenatal testing goes global

S Chandrasekharan, MA Minear, A Hung… - Science translational …, 2014 - science.org
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