Non-invasive prenatal testing (NIPT): limitations on the way to become diagnosis

Abstract: With the discovery of existing circulating cell-free fetal DNA (ccffDNA) in maternal plasma and the advent of next-generation sequencing (NGS) technology, there is substantial hope that prenatal diagnosis will become a predominately non-invasive process in the future. At the moment, non-invasive prenatal testing (NIPT) is available for high-risk pregnancies with significant better sensitivity and specificity than the other existing non-invasive methods (biochemical and ultrasonographical). Mainly it is performed by NGS methods in a few commercial labs worldwide. However, it is expected that many other labs will offer analogous services in the future in this fast-growing field with a multiplicity of in-house methods (e.g., epigenetic, etc.). Due to various limitations of the available methods and technologies that are explained in detail in this manuscript, NIPT has not become diagnostic yet and women may still need to undergo risky invasive procedures to verify a positive finding or to secure (or even expand) a negative one. Efforts have already started to make the NIPT technologies more accurate (even at the level of a complete fetal genome) and cheaper and thus more affordable, in order to become diagnostic screening tests for all pregnancies in the near future.

Standort
Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
Umfang
Online-Ressource
Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Non-invasive prenatal testing (NIPT): limitations on the way to become diagnosis ; volume:2 ; number:3 ; year:2015 ; pages:141-158 ; extent:18
Diagnosis ; 2, Heft 3 (2015), 141-158 (gesamt 18)

Urheber
Kotsopoulou, Ioanna
Tsoplou, Panagiota
Mavrommatis, Konstantinos
Kroupis, Christos

DOI
10.1515/dx-2015-0002
URN
urn:nbn:de:101:1-2412011618267.374752583635
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  • Kotsopoulou, Ioanna
  • Tsoplou, Panagiota
  • Mavrommatis, Konstantinos
  • Kroupis, Christos

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