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 …

Overview of the impact of noninvasive prenatal testing on diagnostic procedures

SL Warsof, S Larion, AZ Abuhamad - Prenatal diagnosis, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Noninvasive prenatal testing (NIPT) has had a profound influence in the field of prenatal
diagnosis since the 1997 discovery of cell‐free fetal DNA in maternal blood. Research has …

Uptake of noninvasive prenatal testing (NIPT) in women following positive aneuploidy screening

S Chetty, MJ Garabedian, ME Norton - Prenatal Diagnosis, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Objective The aim of this study was to investigate how the introduction of noninvasive
prenatal testing (NIPT) impacted women's testing choices following a positive prenatal …

Uptake, outcomes, and costs of implementing non-invasive prenatal testing for Down's syndrome into NHS maternity care: prospective cohort study in eight diverse …

LS Chitty, D Wright, M Hill, TI Verhoef, R Daley… - bmj, 2016 - bmj.com
Objective To investigate the benefits and costs of implementing non-invasive prenatal
testing (NIPT) for Down's syndrome into the NHS maternity care pathway. Design …

Global perspectives on clinical adoption of NIPT

MA Minear, C Lewis, S Pradhan… - Prenatal …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Objective The goals of this study were to assess global trends in clinical implementation of
noninvasive prenatal testing (NIPT), as commercial tests are marketed increasingly …

Attitudes of pregnant women and male partners towards non-invasive prenatal testing and widening the scope of prenatal screening

RV Van Schendel, JH Kleinveld, WJ Dondorp… - European Journal of …, 2014 - nature.com
Non-invasive prenatal testing (NIPT) and its potential to test for multiple disorders has
received much attention. This study explores attitudes of women and men towards NIPT, and …

Non-invasive prenatal testing for Down's syndrome: pregnant women's views and likely uptake

C Lewis, C Silcock, LS Chitty - Public health genomics, 2013 - karger.com
Background: The introduction of non-invasive prenatal testing (NIPT) for Down's syndrome
into routine state-funded antenatal care in the UK is approaching. Methods: We conducted …

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 …

Women's and health professionals' preferences for prenatal tests for Down syndrome: a discrete choice experiment to contrast noninvasive prenatal diagnosis with …

M Hill, J Fisher, LS Chitty, S Morris - Genetics in medicine, 2012 - nature.com
Purpose: To compare the preferences of women and health professionals for key attributes
of noninvasive prenatal diagnosis for Down syndrome relative to current invasive tests …

Non-invasive prenatal testing (NIPT): reliability, challenges, and future directions

SS Jayashankar, ML Nasaruddin, MF Hassan… - Diagnostics, 2023 - mdpi.com
Non-invasive prenatal testing was first discovered in 1988; it was primarily thought to be
able to detect common aneuploidies, such as Patau syndrome (T13), Edward Syndrome …