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NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE
Volume 372, Issue 17, Pages 1639-1645Publisher
MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa1408408
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- National Institutes of Health
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Investigations of noninvasive prenatal screening for aneuploidy by analysis of circulating cell-free DNA (cfDNA) have shown high sensitivity and specificity in both high-risk and low-risk cohorts. However, the overall low incidence of aneuploidy limits the positive predictive value of these tests. Currently, the causes of false positive results are poorly understood. We investigated four pregnancies with discordant prenatal test results and found in two cases that maternal duplications on chromosome 18 were the likely cause of the discordant results. Modeling based on population-level copy-number variation supports the possibility that some false positive results of noninvasive prenatal screening may be attributable to large maternal copy-number variants.
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