scholarly journals Analysis of cell-free fetal DNA for non-invasive prenatal diagnosis in a family with neonatal diabetes

2016 ◽  
Vol 34 (4) ◽  
pp. 582-585 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. De Franco ◽  
R. Caswell ◽  
J. A. L. Houghton ◽  
V. Iotova ◽  
A. T. Hattersley ◽  
...  
2012 ◽  
Vol 15 (Supplement) ◽  
pp. 17-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
Neil D. Avent ◽  
A Webb ◽  
TE Madgett ◽  
T Miran ◽  
K Sillence ◽  
...  

ABSTRACT Current invasive procedures [amniocentesis and chorionic villus sampling (CVS)] pose a risk to mother and fetus and such diagnostic procedures are available only to high risk pregnancies limiting aneuploidy detection rate. This review seeks to highlight the necessity of investing in non invasive prenatal diagnosis (NIPD) and how NIPD would improve patient safety and detection rate as well as allowing detection earlier in pregnancy. Non invasive prenatal diagnosis can take either a proteomics approach or nucleic acid-based approach; this review focuses on the latter. Since the discovery of cell free fetal DNA (cffDNA) and fetal RNA in maternal plasma, procedures have been developed for detection for monogenic traits and for some have become well established (e.g., RHD blood group status). However, NIPD of aneuploidies remains technically challenging. This review examines currently published literature evaluating techniques and approaches that have been suggested and developed for aneuploidy detection, highlighting their advantages and limitations and areas for further research.


2009 ◽  
Vol 59 (562) ◽  
pp. e146-e148 ◽  
Author(s):  
Imran Rafi ◽  
Lyn Chitty

2009 ◽  
Vol 19 (5) ◽  
pp. 714-720 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ying Li ◽  
Gheona Altarescu ◽  
Paul Renbaum ◽  
Talia Eldar-Geva ◽  
Ephrat Levy-Lahad ◽  
...  

2019 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 156-167
Author(s):  
sara mahmoud ◽  
hasnaa aboalwafa ◽  
Eman Ali ◽  
Nesma Ahmed ◽  
mohamed mahmoud ◽  
...  

2014 ◽  
Vol 85 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Grzegorz Jakiel ◽  
Anna Kucińska-Chahwan ◽  
Barbara Pawłowska ◽  
Janusz Zimowski ◽  
Diana Massalska ◽  
...  

Author(s):  
Najmeh Davoodian ◽  
Ali Kadivar ◽  
Heidar Heidari Khoie ◽  
Sima Hematian Khayat ◽  
Mahboobeh Heidari Nasirabadi

Background and Aims: New advances in the use of cell-free fetal DNA (cffDNA) in maternal plasma of pregnant women has provided the possibility of applying cffDNA in prenatal diagnosis as a non-invasive method. One of the applications of prenatal diagnosis is fetal gender determination. Early prenatal determination of fetal sex is required for pregnant women at risk of X-linked and some endocrine diseases. The present study was carried out to perform an efficient polymerase chain reaction (PCR) method in order to improve sensitivity, specificity and accuracy of non-invasive fetal gender detection using fetal DNA in maternal plasma during 8th -12th weeks of pregnancy. Materials and Methods: Thirty-five pregnant women with 8 to 12 weeks of pregnancy were selected for prenatal fetal sex determination. Maternal peripheral blood was collected and cffDNA was extracted from 3-ml of maternal plasma. Two multi copy Y-chromosome-specific region (DYS and DAZ) and a single copy gene (SRY) were amplified by real-time quantitative PCR. Amplification was labeled as positive, negative, or inconclusive according to a stringent algorithm. Results: Using this method, the sensitivity and specificity of the real-time PCR assay was 100% and 93.8% for prenatal fetal sex detection, respectively. Conclusions: It is concluded that fetal sex can be determined with a high level of accuracy by our algorithm, after 8 weeks of gestation with cffDNA analysis.


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