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Noninvasive Fetal Trisomy (NIFTY) test: an advanced noninvasive prenatal diagnosis methodology for fetal autosomal and sex chromosomal aneuploidies
1 Dec 2012
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BACKGROUND: Conventional prenatal screening tests, such as maternal serum tests and ultrasound scan, have limited resolution and accuracy. METHODS: We developed an advanced noninvasive prenatal diagnosis method based on massively parallel sequencing. The Noninvasive Fetal Trisomy (NIFTY) test, combines an optimized Student's t-test with a locally weighted polynomial regression and binary hypotheses. We applied...
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