Test Name
NIPS without Fetal Sex with Microdeletions
Alternate Names
Non-Invasive Prenatal Screening with Microdeletions
Description
Intended for singleton pregnancies from 10 weeks gestation to term.
Detection of the most common fetal aneuploidies – Down syndrome (trisomy 21), Edwards syndrome (trisomy 18), and Patau syndrome (trisomy 13), as well as sex chromosome aneuploidies – Klinefelter syndrome (XXY), Jacobs syndrome (XYY), and trisomy X syndrome (XXX).
This test also detects microdeletion syndromes – 1p36 deletion, 4p-(Wolf-Hirschhorn syndrome), 5p-(cri-du-chat syndrome), 15q11 (Prader-Willi syndrome/Angelman syndrome), and 22q11 deletion (DiGeorge).
This test does NOT include assessment of fetal sex.