DNA test better than standard screens in identifying fetal chromosome abnormalities

A study in this week’s New England Journal of Medicine potentially has significant implications for prenatal testing for major fetal chromosome abnormalities. The study found that in a head-to-head comparison of noninvasive prenatal testing using cell free DNA (cfDNA) to standard screening methods, cfDNA testing (verifi prenatal test, Illumina, Inc.) significantly reduced the rate of false positive results and had significantly higher positive predictive values for the detection of fetal trisomi…

Fuente : http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2014-02/tmc…