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Performance of non-invasive prenatal testing for trisomies 21 and 18 in twin pregnancies

Jiexia Yang et al. Mol Cytogenet. 2018.

Abstract

Background: Cell-free fetal DNA in maternal plasma represents a source of fetal genetic material that can be sampled noninvasively. There are ample studies confirming the accuracy of NIPT in singleton pregnancies, but there is still relatively little studies demonstrate the feasibility and clinical application of a NIPT for fetal aneuploidy screening in twin pregnancies.

Results: In this study, we have finished 432 twin pregnancies screening by NIPT. There were 4 double chorionic dichorionic diamniotic (DCDA) cases of true positive NIPT results, including 1of T18 and 3 of T21, and 1 monochorionic diamniotic (MCDA) cases of true positive NIPT results, including 1of T21. The combined false-positive frequency for trisomies 21, 18 was 0%. Furthermore, there were 2 cases of false positive NIPT results, including 1 of T7 and 1 of sex chromosome aneuploidy. There was no false negative case, which gave a combined sensitivity and specificity of 100 and 99.53% respectively.

Conclusion: Our study demonstrated NIPT performed well in the detection of trisomy 21 in twin pregnancy. It is feasible and clinical applicable of NIPT for fetal aneuploidy screening in twin pregnancies. But, it needs a large number of clinical samples to demonstrate the applicability of other chromosomal abnormalities besides trisomies 21 and 18 in both singleton pregnancies and twin pregnancies.

Keywords: Amniocentesis; Assisted reproductive techniques (ART); Non-invasive prenatal testing (NIPT); Trisomy 21; Twin pregnancy.

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This study was performed with the approval of Medical Ethics Committee of Guangdong Women and Children Hospital, and written informed consent was obtained from the patient.The patients in this research have provided their consent for publication.The authors declare that they have no competing interests.Springer Nature remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations.

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Karyotyping results of 3 cases. a and b, case 1, Normal/T18; c and d, case 2 Normal/T21; e and f, case 3, Normal/T21; g and h, case 4 Normal/T21; i and j, case 5 Normal/T21. Triploid chromosomes have been outlined with red line

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