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NIPT during pregnancy: How this blood test helps detect rare genetic conditions early

Non-invasive prenatal testing (NIPT) is a simple blood test during pregnancy that helps detect rare genetic conditions early, ...
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Study: NIPT identifies twice as many down syndrome cases as STSS

A novel study analyzing the cost-effectiveness of different Down syndrome (DS) screening strategies. The result confirms that non-invasive prenatal testing (NIPT) outperforms second-trimester serum ...
MedPage Today

NICHD Director Diana Bianchi, MD, on Finding Incidental Maternal Cancers via Prenatal Testing

Noninvasive prenatal testing (NIPT) for fetal aneuploidy screening using cell-free DNA (cfDNA) can incidentally discover maternal cancers, according to a Dutch retrospective study. The analysis ...
Forbes

Prenatal DNA Tests Raise High-Stakes Questions For Parents And Families

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. William A. Haseltine, Ph.D., covers genomics and regenerative medicine Non-invasive prenatal testing, or NIPT, now shapes critical ...
Scientific American

A Prenatal Test of the Fetus Turns Up Cancers in Pregnant Mothers

In 2013 Susan Klugman, an obstetrician and geneticist who is currently president of the American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics, got back test results that were “really weird.” Her patient ...
News Medical

Position statement on promise, challenges of non-invasive prenatal testing

Two of the world's largest professional societies of human geneticists have issued a joint position statement on the promise and challenges of non-invasive prenatal testing (NIPT), a new procedure to ...
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