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Difference between massively parallel shotgun sequencing (MPSS) and targeted massively parallel sequencing (TMPS). Genomics‐based non‐invasive prenatal testing (gNIPT) aims to count the number of copies of DNA fragments from the chromosomes of interest (chromosome 21 (Chrom. 21) in this example) present in circulating cell‐free DNA (ccfDNA) from a pregnant woman, relative to a reference set of chromosomes (Ref. Chrom.). DNA fragments circulating in maternal blood in the case of a euploid (left) and aneuploid (right) pregnancy are illustrated (top). MPSS produces a large number of sequence reads from all chromosomes while TMPS generates a larger proportion of reads from the chromosomes of interest (bottom). In both methods, sequence reads can be used to detect a slight excess of fetal genomic material coming from the chromosome of interest. Figure was created by FR.
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Difference between massively parallel shotgun sequencing (MPSS) and targeted massively parallel sequencing (TMPS). Genomics‐based non‐invasive prenatal testing (gNIPT) aims to count the number of copies of DNA fragments from the chromosomes of interest (chromosome 21 (Chrom. 21) in this example) present in circulating cell‐free DNA (ccfDNA) from a pregnant woman, relative to a reference set of chromosomes (Ref. Chrom.). DNA fragments circulating in maternal blood in the case of a euploid (left) and aneuploid (right) pregnancy are illustrated (top). MPSS produces a large number of sequence reads from all chromosomes while TMPS generates a larger proportion of reads from the chromosomes of interest (bottom). In both methods, sequence reads can be used to detect a slight excess of fetal genomic material coming from the chromosome of interest. Figure was created by FR.

Current clinical pathway and three proposed uses of genomics‐based non‐invasive prenatal testing (gNIPT). Currently (on the left), pregnant women can have a prenatal screening test consisting of biomarkers or ultrasound, or both. For high‐risk pregnant women, an invasive diagnostic test (karyotyping) is offered. In the present review, we propose 3 different clinical pathways. First, gNIPT could be used as a triage test, to decide which pregnant women should receive further testing. Second, gNIPT could be used to replace current prenatal screening tests. Finally, gNIPT could be used to replace current invasive diagnostic tests (if diagnostic performance permits). At any point in a clinical pathway, a pregnant woman may decide not to proceed with other tests (not shown in the figure). Figure was designed by CL, JB, MB and YT.
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Current clinical pathway and three proposed uses of genomics‐based non‐invasive prenatal testing (gNIPT). Currently (on the left), pregnant women can have a prenatal screening test consisting of biomarkers or ultrasound, or both. For high‐risk pregnant women, an invasive diagnostic test (karyotyping) is offered. In the present review, we propose 3 different clinical pathways. First, gNIPT could be used as a triage test, to decide which pregnant women should receive further testing. Second, gNIPT could be used to replace current prenatal screening tests. Finally, gNIPT could be used to replace current invasive diagnostic tests (if diagnostic performance permits). At any point in a clinical pathway, a pregnant woman may decide not to proceed with other tests (not shown in the figure). Figure was designed by CL, JB, MB and YT.

PRISMA flow diagram for selection of studies from January 2007 to October 2016.#: number, DTA: diagnostic test accuracy, NTIS: The National Technical Information Service and WHO ICTRP: World Health Organization International Clinical Trials Registry Platform.
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PRISMA flow diagram for selection of studies from January 2007 to October 2016.

#: number, DTA: diagnostic test accuracy, NTIS: The National Technical Information Service and WHO ICTRP: World Health Organization International Clinical Trials Registry Platform.

Risk of bias and applicability concerns summary: review authors' judgements about each domain for each of the studies included for massively parallel shotgun sequencing (MPSS).
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Risk of bias and applicability concerns summary: review authors' judgements about each domain for each of the studies included for massively parallel shotgun sequencing (MPSS).

Risk of bias and applicability concerns summary: review authors' judgements about each domain for each study included for targeted massively parallel sequencing (TMPS).
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Risk of bias and applicability concerns summary: review authors' judgements about each domain for each study included for targeted massively parallel sequencing (TMPS).

Risk of bias and applicability concerns (all tests included): review authors' judgements about each domains presented as percentages across included studies. MPSS: massively parallel shotgun sequencing, TMPS: targeted massively parallel sequencing.
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Risk of bias and applicability concerns (all tests included): review authors' judgements about each domains presented as percentages across included studies. MPSS: massively parallel shotgun sequencing, TMPS: targeted massively parallel sequencing.

Forest plot of MPSS and TMPS for T21 in unselected pregnant women undergoing aneuploidy screening. FN: false negative, FP: false positive, MPSS: massively parallel shotgun sequencing, TMPS: targeted massively parallel sequencing, TN: true negative and TP: true positive.
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Forest plot of MPSS and TMPS for T21 in unselected pregnant women undergoing aneuploidy screening. FN: false negative, FP: false positive, MPSS: massively parallel shotgun sequencing, TMPS: targeted massively parallel sequencing, TN: true negative and TP: true positive.

Forest plot of MPSS and TMPS for T21 in pregnant women selected at high risk of fetal aneuploidy. FN: false negative, FP: false positive, MPSS: massively parallel shotgun sequencing, TMPS: targeted massively parallel sequencing, TN: true negative and TP: true positive.
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Forest plot of MPSS and TMPS for T21 in pregnant women selected at high risk of fetal aneuploidy. FN: false negative, FP: false positive, MPSS: massively parallel shotgun sequencing, TMPS: targeted massively parallel sequencing, TN: true negative and TP: true positive.

Forest plot of MPSS and TMPS for T18 in pregnant women selected at high risk of fetal aneuploidy. FN: false negative, FP: false positive, MPSS: massively parallel shotgun sequencing, TMPS: targeted massively parallel sequencing, TN: true negative and TP: true positive.
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Forest plot of MPSS and TMPS for T18 in pregnant women selected at high risk of fetal aneuploidy. FN: false negative, FP: false positive, MPSS: massively parallel shotgun sequencing, TMPS: targeted massively parallel sequencing, TN: true negative and TP: true positive.

Forest plot of MPSS and TMPS for T13 in pregnant women selected at high risk of fetal aneuploidy. FN: false negative, FP: false positive, MPSS: massively parallel shotgun sequencing, TMPS: targeted massively parallel sequencing, TN: true negative and TP: true positive.
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Forest plot of MPSS and TMPS for T13 in pregnant women selected at high risk of fetal aneuploidy. FN: false negative, FP: false positive, MPSS: massively parallel shotgun sequencing, TMPS: targeted massively parallel sequencing, TN: true negative and TP: true positive.

Forest plot of MPSS and TMPS for 45,X in pregnant women selected at high risk of fetal aneuploidy. FN: false negative, FP: false positive, MPSS: massively parallel shotgun sequencing, TMPS: targeted massively parallel sequencing, TN: true negative and TP: true positive.
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Forest plot of MPSS and TMPS for 45,X in pregnant women selected at high risk of fetal aneuploidy. FN: false negative, FP: false positive, MPSS: massively parallel shotgun sequencing, TMPS: targeted massively parallel sequencing, TN: true negative and TP: true positive.

Forest plot of MPSS and TMPS for 47,XXX, 47,XXY and 47,XYY in pregnant women selected at high risk of fetal aneuploidy. FN: false negative, FP: false positive, MPSS: massively parallel shotgun sequencing, TMPS: targeted massively parallel sequencing, TN: true negative and TP: true positive.
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Forest plot of MPSS and TMPS for 47,XXX, 47,XXY and 47,XYY in pregnant women selected at high risk of fetal aneuploidy. FN: false negative, FP: false positive, MPSS: massively parallel shotgun sequencing, TMPS: targeted massively parallel sequencing, TN: true negative and TP: true positive.

Forest plot of MPSS and TMPS for autosomes (T21, T18 and T13 combined) in unselected pregnant women undergoing aneuploidy screening. FN: false negative, FP: false positive, MPSS: massively parallel shotgun sequencing, TMPS: targeted massively parallel sequencing, TN: true negative and TP: true positive.
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Forest plot of MPSS and TMPS for autosomes (T21, T18 and T13 combined) in unselected pregnant women undergoing aneuploidy screening. FN: false negative, FP: false positive, MPSS: massively parallel shotgun sequencing, TMPS: targeted massively parallel sequencing, TN: true negative and TP: true positive.

Forest plot of MPSS and TMPS for autosomes (T21, T18 and T13) in pregnant women selected at high risk of fetal aneuploidy. FN: false negative, FP: false positive, MPSS: massively parallel shotgun sequencing, TMPS: targeted massively parallel sequencing, TN: true negative and TP: true positive.
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Forest plot of MPSS and TMPS for autosomes (T21, T18 and T13) in pregnant women selected at high risk of fetal aneuploidy. FN: false negative, FP: false positive, MPSS: massively parallel shotgun sequencing, TMPS: targeted massively parallel sequencing, TN: true negative and TP: true positive.

Forest plot of MPSS and TMPS for SCA (45,X, 47,XXX, 47,XXY and 47,XYY combined) in pregnant women selected at high risk of fetal aneuploidy. FN: false negative, FP: false positive, MPSS: massively parallel shotgun sequencing, TMPS: targeted massively parallel sequencing, TN: true negative and TP: true positive.
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Forest plot of MPSS and TMPS for SCA (45,X, 47,XXX, 47,XXY and 47,XYY combined) in pregnant women selected at high risk of fetal aneuploidy. FN: false negative, FP: false positive, MPSS: massively parallel shotgun sequencing, TMPS: targeted massively parallel sequencing, TN: true negative and TP: true positive.

Forest plot of traditional screening tests for T21, T18 and T13 in unselected pregnant women undergoing aneuploidy screening. FN: false negative, FP: false positive, MPSS: massively parallel shotgun sequencing, TMPS: targeted massively parallel sequencing, TN: true negative and TP: true positive.
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Forest plot of traditional screening tests for T21, T18 and T13 in unselected pregnant women undergoing aneuploidy screening. FN: false negative, FP: false positive, MPSS: massively parallel shotgun sequencing, TMPS: targeted massively parallel sequencing, TN: true negative and TP: true positive.

Forest plot of traditional screening tests for autosomes (T21, T18 and T13 combined) in unselected pregnant women undergoing aneuploidy screening. FN: false negative, FP: false positive, TN: true negative and TP: true positive.
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Forest plot of traditional screening tests for autosomes (T21, T18 and T13 combined) in unselected pregnant women undergoing aneuploidy screening. FN: false negative, FP: false positive, TN: true negative and TP: true positive.

Forest plot of comparative studies of TMPS and traditional screening tests for autosomes (T21, T18 and T13 combined) in unselected pregnant women undergoing aneuploidy screening. FN: false negative, FP: false positive, TN: true negative and TP: true positive.
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Forest plot of comparative studies of TMPS and traditional screening tests for autosomes (T21, T18 and T13 combined) in unselected pregnant women undergoing aneuploidy screening. FN: false negative, FP: false positive, TN: true negative and TP: true positive.

Forest plot of traditional screening tests for autosomes (T21, T18 and T13 combined) in pregnant women with mixed prior risk of fetal aneuploidy. FN: false negative, FP: false positive, MPSS: massively parallel shotgun sequencing, TMPS: targeted massively parallel sequencing, TN: true negative and TP: true positive.
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Forest plot of traditional screening tests for autosomes (T21, T18 and T13 combined) in pregnant women with mixed prior risk of fetal aneuploidy. FN: false negative, FP: false positive, MPSS: massively parallel shotgun sequencing, TMPS: targeted massively parallel sequencing, TN: true negative and TP: true positive.

Forest plot of MPSS and TMPS for autosomes (T21, T18 and T13 combined) in pregnant women with mixed prior risk of fetal aneuploidy. FN: false negative, FP: false positive, MPSS: massively parallel shotgun sequencing, TMPS: targeted massively parallel sequencing, TN: true negative and TP: true positive.
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Forest plot of MPSS and TMPS for autosomes (T21, T18 and T13 combined) in pregnant women with mixed prior risk of fetal aneuploidy. FN: false negative, FP: false positive, MPSS: massively parallel shotgun sequencing, TMPS: targeted massively parallel sequencing, TN: true negative and TP: true positive.

Forest plot of MPSS and TMPS for T21, T18 or T13 in pregnant women with mixed prior risk of fetal aneuploidy. FN: false negative, FP: false positive, MPSS: massively parallel shotgun sequencing, TMPS: targeted massively parallel sequencing, TN: true negative and TP: true positive.
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Forest plot of MPSS and TMPS for T21, T18 or T13 in pregnant women with mixed prior risk of fetal aneuploidy. FN: false negative, FP: false positive, MPSS: massively parallel shotgun sequencing, TMPS: targeted massively parallel sequencing, TN: true negative and TP: true positive.

Forest plot of MPSS and TMPS for SCA (45,X, 47,XXX, 47,XXY and 47,XYY combined) in pregnant women with mixed prior risk of fetal aneuploidy. FN: false negative, FP: false positive, MPSS: massively parallel shotgun sequencing, TMPS: targeted massively parallel sequencing, TN: true negative and TP: true positive.
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Forest plot of MPSS and TMPS for SCA (45,X, 47,XXX, 47,XXY and 47,XYY combined) in pregnant women with mixed prior risk of fetal aneuploidy. FN: false negative, FP: false positive, MPSS: massively parallel shotgun sequencing, TMPS: targeted massively parallel sequencing, TN: true negative and TP: true positive.

Forest plot of MPSS and TMPS for 45,X, 47,XXY or 47,XYY in pregnant women with mixed prior risk of fetal aneuploidy. FN: false negative, FP: false positive, MPSS: massively parallel shotgun sequencing, TMPS: targeted massively parallel sequencing, TN: true negative and TP: true positive.
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Forest plot of MPSS and TMPS for 45,X, 47,XXY or 47,XYY in pregnant women with mixed prior risk of fetal aneuploidy. FN: false negative, FP: false positive, MPSS: massively parallel shotgun sequencing, TMPS: targeted massively parallel sequencing, TN: true negative and TP: true positive.

MPSS T21.
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MPSS T21.

MPSS T18.
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MPSS T18.

MPSS T13.
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Test 3

MPSS T13.

MPSS 45,X.
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MPSS 45,X.

MPSS 47, XXX.
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MPSS 47, XXX.

MPSS 47,XXY.
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MPSS 47,XXY.

MPSS 47,XYY.
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MPSS 47,XYY.

MPSS all 7 aneuploidies.
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MPSS all 7 aneuploidies.

MPSS, autosomes.
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MPSS, autosomes.

MPSS, SCA.
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MPSS, SCA.

TMPS T21.
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Test 11

TMPS T21.

TMPS T18.
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TMPS T18.

TMPS T13.
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TMPS T13.

TMPS 45,X.
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TMPS 45,X.

TMPS 47,XXX.
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TMPS 47,XXX.

TMPS 47,XXY.
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TMPS 47,XXY.

TMPS 47,XYY.
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TMPS 47,XYY.

TMPS all 7 aneuploidies.
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TMPS all 7 aneuploidies.

TMPS, autosomes.
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TMPS, autosomes.

TMPS, SCA.
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TMPS, SCA.

Traditional screening tests, autosomes.
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Traditional screening tests, autosomes.

Traditional screening tests T21.
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Traditional screening tests T21.

Traditional screening tests T18.
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Traditional screening tests T18.

Traditional screening tests T13.
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Traditional screening tests T13.

Summary of findings 1. Summary characteristics of included studies

Summary characteristics of included studies

Review question

What is the diagnostic accuracy of massively parallel shotgun sequencing (MPSS) and targeted massively parallel sequencing (TMPS) using circulating cell‐free DNA (ccfDNA) in maternal blood for the detection of common fetal aneuploidies (T21, T18, T13, 45,X, 47,XXY, 47,XXX and 47,XYY) in pregnant women according to their prior risk of fetal aneuploidy?

Importance (rationale)

These new genomics‐based non‐invasive prenatal testing (gNIPT) approach report higher sensitivity and lower false positive rate than traditional screening tests. gNIPT is already advertised and marketed. How gNIPT should be used in clinical practice should be assessed in order to provide a framework for its use.

Study design

There were 40 prospective cohort studies, 8 retrospective cohort studies, 16 case‐control studies and 1 prospective and retrospective cohort study.

Population

Pregnant women of any age, ethnicity and gestational age, with singleton or multifetal pregnancy who had a screening test for fetal aneuploidy using gNIPT and received a reference standard. 42 studies enrolled pregnant women selected at high risk of fetal aneuploidy, 5 enrolled unselected pregnant women undergoing aneuploidy screening and 18 enrolled pregnant women from a mixed‐risk population of fetal aneuploidy. 48 studies included only women with singleton pregnancy, 5 included only multifetal pregnancies, 4 included either type of pregnancy and 8 did not report type of pregnancy. 10 studies included only women in the first trimester (15 weeks or less), 21 studies included women in the first 2 trimesters (29 weeks or less), 24 studies included women in the 3 trimesters (42 weeks or less) and 10 studies (15%) did not report gestational age.

Index tests

gNIPT by MPSS (44 studies) or TMPS (21 studies), including 5 studies that compared a gNIPT with a traditional screening test. 37 studies were industry‐funded or were written by 1 or more authors affiliated with a company who sells gNIPT. 22 studies were not reported to be funded by industry but samples were sequenced and analysed by a commercial laboratory. 3 studies had no links with industry.

Target conditions

36 studies reported results for only autosomes (T21, T18, T13), 4 for only SCA (45,X, 47,XXY, 47,XXX and 47,XYY), and 25 for both autosomes and SCA.

Reference standard

Fetal karyotyping performed on cells obtained from chorionic villi sampling, amniotic fluid, placental tissue, a fetus lost by miscarriage or other equivalent and recognised methods on the same materials for autosomes and SCA. If fetal karyotyping was not performed, we used neonatal clinical examination or medical records from birth (for autosomes only). Only 1 reference standard was used for all pregnant women included in 36 studies while multiple reference standards were used in 29 studies.

Risk of bias

The QUality Assessment of Diagnostic Accuracy Studies (QUADAS‐2) tool was used to assess the methodological quality of included studies.

No study was assessed as being at low risk of bias across all domains. For the patient selection domain, no study was assessed as being at low risk of bias. For the index test, reference standard and flow and timing domains, the risk of bias was low for 94%, 77% and 23% of studies, respectively.

Applicability concerns

Applicability was of low concern for all studies in the index test and reference standard domains because the studies matched the review question. In the patient selection domain, 47 (71%) studies were judged to be of low applicability concern because they included pregnant women matching the review question.

45,X: Turner syndrome, 47,XXX: triple X syndrome, 47,XXY: Klinefelter syndrome, MPSS: massively parallel shotgun sequencing, TMPS: targeted massively parallel sequencing, T21: trisomy 21, T18: trisomy 18, T13: trisomy 13.

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Summary of findings 1. Summary characteristics of included studies
Summary of findings 2. Performance of gNIPT for detection of T21

Performance of gNIPT for detection of T21

Test strategy

Number of

studies

Number of affected

pregnancies (Number of

unaffected pregnancies)a

Sensitivity

% (95% CI)

Specificity

% (95% CI)

Median

prevalenceb

% (range)

Missed

cases

(FN)c

False

positives

(FP)d

Unselected pregnant women

MPSS

1

8 (1733)

100 (67.6 to 100)

100 (99.8 to 100)

0.46

(0.24 to 5.21)

0

0

TMPS

4

88 (20,679)

99.2 (78.2 to 100)

100 (> 99.9 to 100)

4

0

Traditional screening teste

1

38 (15,803)

78.9 (63.7 to 88.9)

94.6 (94.2 to 94.9)

97

5375

Implications

  • 460 of 100,000 pregnancies expected to be affected by T21;

  • MPSS will detect all cases and no pregnant woman will undergo an unnecessary invasive test;

  • with TMPS, 4 cases will be missed and no pregnant woman will undergo unnecessary invasive test; and

  • with traditional screening tests, 363 cases will be detected and 5375 unaffected pregnant women will undergo unnecessary invasive test.

Selected high‐risk pregnant women

MPSS

30

1048 (15,937)

99.7 (98.0 to 100)

99.9 (99.8 to 100)

4.95

(0.44 to 27.66)

15

95

TMPS

6

246 (4380)

99.2 (96.8 to 99.8)

100 (99.8 to 100)

40

0

Difference between MPSS and TMPS

0.53 (‐0.73 to 1.78)

‐0.03 (‐0.11 to 0.04)

NA

Implications

  • 4950 of 100,000 pregnancies expected to be affected by T21;

  • 4936 and 4911 cases will be detected while 15 and 40 cases will be missed by MPSS and TMPS, respectively; and

  • of 95,050 expected pregnancies unaffected by T21, 95 and 0 pregnant women will undergo unnecessary invasive tests with MPSS and TMPS, respectively.

MPSS: massively parallel shotgun sequencing, NA; not applicable, TMPS: targeted massively parallel sequencing, T21: trisomy 21.

aUnaffected pregnancies: we included patients with any other aneuploidy than the one under analysis with all euploid cases as "unaffected" pregnancies.

bThe median prevalence and range were calculated by using all prospective or retrospective studies for each category considered.

cMissed cases per 100,000 tested. FN: false negatives.

dFalse positives per 100,000 tested. A false positive result may lead to unnecessary invasive tests depending on choices by the pregnant woman.

eTraditional screening tests are first‐trimester combined test, second‐trimester quadruple test, second‐trimester fully integrated test, second‐trimester sequential test or second‐trimester triple test.

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Summary of findings 2. Performance of gNIPT for detection of T21
Summary of findings 3. Performance of gNIPT for detection of T18

Performance of gNIPT for detection of T18

Test strategy

Number of

studies

Number of affected

pregnancies (Number of

unaffected pregnancies)a

Sensitivity

% (95% CI)

Specificity

% (95% CI)

Median

prevalenceb

% (range)

Missed

cases

(FN)c

False

positives

(FP)d

Unselected pregnant women

MPSS

1

2 (1739)

100 (34.3 to 100)

99.9 (99.7 to 100)

0.11

(0.06 to 0.36)

0

100

TMPS

3

22 (20,553)

90.9 (70.0 to 97.7)

100 (99.9 to 100)

10

0

Traditional screening teste

1

10 (15,831)

80.0 (49.0 to 94.3)

99.7 (99.6 to 99.8)

22

300

Implications

  • 109 of 100,000 pregnancies expected to be affected by T18;

  • MPSS will detect all cases and 100 unaffected pregnant women will undergo an unnecessary invasive test;

  • with TMPS, 10 cases will be missed and no unaffected pregnant woman will undergo unnecessary invasive test; and

  • with traditional screening tests, 87 cases will be detected, 22 will be missed and 300 unaffected pregnant women will undergo unnecessary invasive test.

Selected high‐risk pregnant women

MPSS

28

332 (16,180)

97.8 (92.5 to 99.4)

99.9 (99.8 to 100)

1.46

(0.22 to 17.02)

32

99

TMPS

5

112 (4010)

98.2 (93.1 to 99.6)

100 (99.8 to 100)

26

0

Difference between MPSS and TMPS

‐0.41 (‐4.11 to 3.28)

‐0.06 (‐0.14 to 0.03)

NA

Implications

  • 1463 of 100,000 pregnancies expected to be affected by T18;

  • 1431 and 1437 cases will be detected while 32 and 26 cases will be missed by MPSS and TMPS, respectively; and

  • of 98,537 expected unaffected by T18, 99 and 0 pregnant women will undergo unnecessary invasive test with MPSS and TMPS, respectively.

MPSS: massively parallel shotgun sequencing, NA: not applicable, TMPS: targeted massively parallel sequencing, T18: trisomy 18.

aUnaffected pregnancies: we included patients with any other aneuploidy than the one under analysis with all euploid cases as "unaffected" pregnancies.

bThe median prevalence and range were calculated by using all prospective or retrospective studies for each category considered.

cMissed cases per 100,000 tested. FN: false negatives.

dFalse positives per 100,000 tested. A false positive result may lead to unnecessary invasive tests depending on choices by the pregnant woman.

eTraditional screening tests are first‐trimester combined test, second‐trimester quadruple test, second‐trimester fully integrated test, second‐trimester sequential test or second‐trimester triple test.

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Summary of findings 3. Performance of gNIPT for detection of T18
Summary of findings 4. Performance of gNIPT for detection of T13

Performance of gNIPT for detection of T13

Test strategy

Number of

studies

Number of affected

pregnancies (Number of

unaffected pregnancies)a

Sensitivity %

(95% CI)

Specificity %

(95% CI)

Median

prevalenceb

% (range)

Missed

cases

(FN)c

False

positives

(FP)d

Unselected pregnant women

MPSS

1

1 (1740)

100 (20.7 to 100)

100 (99.8 to 100)

0. 12

(0.01 to 0.52)

0

0

TMPS

3

8 (14,154)

65.1 (9.16 to 97.2)

100 (99.9 to 100)

41

0

Traditional screening teste

1

2 (11,183)

50.0 (9.45 to 90.5)

99.7 (99.6 to 99.8)

59

300

Implications

  • 118 of 100,000 pregnancies expected to be affected by T13;

  • MPSS will detect all cases and no unaffected pregnant woman will undergo an unnecessary invasive test;

  • with TMPS, 41 cases will be missed and no unaffected pregnant woman will undergo unnecessary invasive test; and

  • with traditional screening tests, 59 cases will be missed and 300 unaffected pregnant women will undergo unnecessary invasive test.

Selected high‐risk pregnant women

MPSS

20

128 (13,810)

95.8 (86.1 to 98.9)

99.8 (99.8 to 99.9)

1.09

(0.04 to 3.54)

46

198

TMPS

2

20 (293)

100 (83.9 to 100)f

100 (98.7 to 100)f

0

0

Implications

  • 1087 of 100,000 pregnancies expected to be affected by T13;

  • 1041 and 1087 cases will be detected while 46 and 0 cases will be missed by MPSS and TMPS, respectively; and

  • of 98,913 expected unaffected by T13, 198 and 0 pregnant women will undergo unnecessary invasive test with MPSS and TMPS, respectively.

MPSS: massively parallel shotgun sequencing, NA: not applicable, TMPS: targeted massively parallel sequencing, T13: trisomy 13.

aUnaffected pregnancies: we included patients with any other aneuploidy than the one under analysis with all euploid cases as "unaffected" pregnancies.

bThe median prevalence and range were calculated by using all prospective or retrospective studies for each category considered.

cMissed cases per 100,000 tested. FN: false negatives.

dFalse positives per 100,000 tested. A false positive result may lead to unnecessary invasive tests depending on choices by the pregnant woman.

eTraditional screening tests are first‐trimester combined test, second‐trimester quadruple test, second‐trimester fully integrated test, second‐trimester sequential test or second‐trimester triple test.

fSimple pooling used to obtain summary estimates of sensitivity, specificity or both.

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Summary of findings 4. Performance of gNIPT for detection of T13
Summary of findings 5. Performance of gNIPT for detection of 45,X

Performance of gNIPT for detection of 45,X

Test strategy

Number of

studies

Number of affected

pregnancies (Number of

unaffected pregnancies)a

Sensitivity

% (95% CI)

Specificity

% (95% CI)

Median

prevalenceb

% (range)

Missed

cases

(FN)c

False

positives

(FP)d

Selected high‐risk pregnant women

MPSS

12

119 (7440)

91.7 (78.3 to 97.1)

99.6 (98.9 to 99.8)

1.04

(0.27 to 18.58)

86

396

TMPS

4

79 (985)

92.4 (84.1 to 96.5)

99.8 (98.3 to 100)

79

198

Difference between MPSS and TMPS

‐0.74 (‐11.1 to 9.60)

‐0.23 (‐0.82 to 0.36)

NA

Implications

  • 1039 of 100,000 pregnancies expected to be affected by 45X;

  • 953 and 960 cases will be detected while 86 and 79 cases will be missed by MPSS and TMPS, respectively; and

  • of 98,961 expected unaffected by 45X, 396 and 198 pregnant women will undergo unnecessary invasive test with MPSS and TMPS, respectively.

45,X: Turner syndrome, MPSS: massively parallel shotgun sequencing, NA: not applicable, TMPS: targeted massively parallel sequencing.

aUnaffected pregnancies: we included patients with any other aneuploidy than the one under analysis with all euploid cases as "unaffected" pregnancies.

bThe median prevalence and range were calculated by using all prospective or retrospective studies for each category considered.

cMissed cases per 100,000 tested. FN: false negatives.

dFalse positives per 100,000 tested. A false positive result may lead to unnecessary invasive tests depending on choices by the pregnant woman.

Figuras y tablas -
Summary of findings 5. Performance of gNIPT for detection of 45,X
Summary of findings 6. Performance of gNIPT for detection of autosomes aneuploidies (T21, T18 and T13 combined)

Performance of gNIPT for detection of autosomes aneuploidies (T21, T18 and T13 combined)

Test strategy

Number of

studies

Number of affected

pregnancies (Number of

unaffected pregnancies)a

Sensitivity

% (95% CI)

Specificity

% (95% CI)

Median

prevalenceb

% (range)

Missed

cases

(FN)c

False

positives

(FP)d

Unselected pregnant women

MPSS

1

11 (1730)

100 (74.1 to 100)

99.9 (99.7 to 100)

0,63

(0.32 to 5.73)

0

99

TMPS

4

118 (20,649)

94.9 (89.1 to 97.7)

99.9 (99.8 to 99.9)

32

99

Traditional screening teste

4

120 (22,247)

NDf

ND

Implications

  • 632 of 100,000 pregnancies expected to be affected by T21, T18 or T13;

  • 632 and 600 cases will be detected whereas 0 and 32 cases will be missed by MPSS and TMPS, respectively; and

  • of 99,368 unaffected, 99 pregnant women will undergo unnecessary invasive test with MPSS or TMPS.

Selected high‐risk pregnant women

MPSS

32

1508 (15,797)

98.8 (97.2 to 99.5)

99.9 (99.7 to 100)

5.85

(0.67 to 46.81)

70

94

TMPS

7

378 (4282)

98.9 (97.2 to 99.6)

99.9 (99.8 to 100)

64

94

Difference between MPSS and TMPS

‐0.11

(‐1.58 to 1.35)

‐0.08

(‐0.22 to 0.07)

NA

Implications

  • 5851 of 100,000 pregnancies expected to be affected by T21, T18 or T3;

  • 5781 and 5787 cases will be detected, whereas 70 and 64 cases will be missed by MPSS and TMPS, respectively; and

  • of 94,149 unaffected, 94 pregnant women will undergo unnecessary invasive test with MPSS or TMPS.

MPSS: massively parallel shotgun sequencing, NA: not applicable, ND: no data available, TMPS: targeted massively parallel sequencing, T13: trisomy 13, T18: trisomy 18, T21: trisomy 21.

aUnaffected pregnancies: we included patients with any other aneuploidy than the one under analysis with all euploid cases as "unaffected" pregnancies.

bThe median prevalence and range were calculated by using all prospective or retrospective studies for each category considered.

cMissed cases per 100,000 tested. FN: false negatives.

dFalse positives per 100,000 tested. A false positive result may lead to unnecessary invasive tests depending on choices by the pregnant woman.

eTraditional screening tests are first‐trimester combined test, second‐trimester quadruple test, second‐trimester fully integrated test, second‐trimester sequential test or second‐trimester triple test.

fSummary sensitivity and specificity were not obtained for traditional screening tests because the four studies used different cut‐offs to determine test positivity. Three of the four studies compared TMPS and traditional screening tests in the same population (direct comparison).

Figuras y tablas -
Summary of findings 6. Performance of gNIPT for detection of autosomes aneuploidies (T21, T18 and T13 combined)
Summary of findings 7. Performance of gNIPT for detection of sex chromosome aneuploidies (45,X, 47,XXX, 47,XXY and 47,XYY combined)a

Performance of gNIPT for detection of sex chromosome aneuploidies (45,X, 47,XXX, 47,XXY and 47,XYY combined)

Test strategy

Number of

studies

Number of affected

pregnancies (Number of

unaffected pregnancies)b

Sensitivity

% (95% CI)

Specificity

% (95% CI)

Median

prevalencec

% (range)

Missed

cases

(FN)d

False

positives

(FP)e

Selected high‐risk pregnant women

MPSS

12

151 (7452)

91.9 (73.8 to 97.9)

99.5 (98.8 to 99.8)

1.53

(0.45 to 18.58)

124

492

TMPS

4

96 (968)

93.8 (86.8 to 97.2)

99.6 (98.1 to 99.9)

95

394

Difference between MPSS and TMPS

‐1.85 (‐13.3 to 9.60)

‐0.06 (‐0.82 to 0.71)

NA

Implications

  • 1535 of 100,000 pregnancies expected to be affected by SCA;

  • 1411 and 1440 cases will be detected while 124 and 95 cases will be missed by MPSS and TMPS, respectively;

  • of 98,465 unaffected by SCA, 492 and 394 pregnant women will undergo unnecessary invasive test with MPSS and TMPS, respectively.

45,X: Turner syndrome, 47,XXX: triple X syndrome, 47,XXY: Klinefelter syndrome, MPSS: massively parallel shotgun sequencing, NA: not applicable, ND: no data available, TMPS: targeted massively parallel sequencing

aWe did not assess the accuracy of gNIPT individually for 47,XXX, 47,XXY and 47,XYY due to paucity data.

bUnaffected pregnancies: we included patients with any other aneuploidy than the one under analysis with all euploid cases as "unaffected" pregnancies.

cThe median prevalence and range were calculated by using all prospective or retrospective studies for each category considered.

dMissed cases per 100,000 tested. FN: false negatives.

eFalse positives per 100,000 tested. A false positive result may lead to unnecessary invasive tests depending on choices by the pregnant woman.

Figuras y tablas -
Summary of findings 7. Performance of gNIPT for detection of sex chromosome aneuploidies (45,X, 47,XXX, 47,XXY and 47,XYY combined)a
Table 1. Characteristics of target conditions

Target

condition

Affected birthsa

/100,000

Clinical features

Prognosis

T21

140 to 230b,c

Intellectual disability (mild to moderate), neurodevelopmental problems, characteristic dysmorphic features, congenital defects (cardiac (44% to 58%) and gastrointestinal system (4% to 10%)), vision or hearing impairment (38% to 80%) and obstructive sleep apnoea syndrome (57%)d,e

Mean and median life expectancies are estimated to be 51 and 58 years oldf

T18

59c

Severe intellectual disability and a wide range of significant malformations (cardiac defects, gastrointestinal system defects, renal anomalies, central nervous system defects (apnoea and seizures))d,g

Most affected fetuses die in utero. Median survival has been estimated at 14 days (95% confidence interval (CI) 10 to 20) and 8% (95% CI 4 to 14) reach 1 year of ageh

T13

23c

Severe intellectual disability, seizures and several dysmorphic features, malformations of the extremities, cardiac defects, renal anomalies, and abdominal wall defectsd,i

Most affected fetuses die in utero. Median survival time has been estimated at 10 days (95% CI 7 to 19) and 8% (95% CI 4 to 14) reach 1 year of ageh

45,X

30 to

50c,j

Learning disabilities (70%), short stature, congenital heart diseases (30%) and gonadal dysgenesis (90% with amenorrhoea and infertility due to early ovarian failure)k,l

Mortality in 45,X women is 3‐fold higher than in the general population with an average life span of 69 yearsm

47,XXY

12c

Learning disabilities (> 75%), small testes (> 95%), azoospermia (> 95%), male infertility (91% to 99%), decreased testosterone level (63% to 85%) and gynaecomastia (38% to 75%)l,n

Life expectancy is slightly shorter (approximately 2 years) than euploid menn

47,XXX

6c

Developmental delays (motor and speech), learning or intellectual disability, attention deficits (25% to 35%), mood disorders (anxiety and depression), tall stature (80% to 89%), clinodactyly (42% to 65%), hypotonia in infancy (55% to 71%), genitourinary malformations and congenital heart defectso

Mortality significantly increased with a median survival age of 70.9 years compare to 81.7 years for euploid femalesp

47,XYY

3c

Developmental delays (speech, language and motor), attention deficit disorder (52%), tall stature (78%), central adiposity, macrocephaly (33%), hypotonia (63%), clinodactyly (52%), hypertelorism (59%) and testicular enlargement for age (50%) but no increase in genital anomaliesq

Mortality increased with a reduction of life span of 10.3 years compared to euploid menr

45,X: Turner syndrome, 47,XXX: triple X syndrome, 47,XXY: Klinefelter syndrome, T21: trisomy 21, T18: trisomy 18, T13: trisomy 13.

aIncluding live births, fetal deaths and terminations of pregnancy.

b(Christianson 2006; Parker 2010)

c(Wellesley 2012)

d(Driscoll 2009)

e(Irving 2012; Weijerman 2010)

f(Wu 2013b)

g(Cereda 2012)

h(Wu 2013a)

i(Chen 2009)

j(Stochholm 2006)

k(Karnis 2012; Mazzanti 1998; Sybert 2004)

l(Tyler 2004)

m(Saenger 1996; Schoemaker 2008)

n(Groth 2013)

o(Tartaglia 2010)

p(Stochholm 2010b)

q(Bardsley 2013; Leggett 2010)

r(Stochholm 2010a).

Figuras y tablas -
Table 1. Characteristics of target conditions
Table 2. Reported accuracy of commercially available genomics‐based non‐invasive prenatal testsa

Test name

(Company,

country)

Method

Aneuploidy

Reported

sensitivity

% (95% CI)

Reported

specificity

% (95% CI)

Reported

false positive

rate %

Bambni™

Test

(Berry Genomics

Co. Ltd, China)

MPSS

T21

100.0 (ND)

> 99.9 (ND)

< 0.1

T18

100.0 (ND)

> 99.9 (ND)

< 0.1

T13

100.0 (ND)

> 99.9 (ND)

< 0.1

45,X

100.0 (ND)

99.8 (ND)

0.0

47,XXX

100.0 (ND)

100.0 (ND)

0.1

47,XXY

100.0 (ND)

100.0 (ND)

0.0

47,XYY

100.0 (ND)

100.0 (ND)

0.0

GENOMOM

(Genome Care,

Korea)

MPSS

T21, T18

and T13

99.0 (ND)

ND

ND

SCA

95.0 (ND)

ND

ND

Harmony™

prenatal test

(Ariosa Diagnostics,

Inc., USA)

Oligo TMPS

T21

> 99.0 (ND)

> 99.9 (ND)

< 0.1

T18

97.4 (ND)

> 99.9 (ND)

< 0.1

T13

93.8 (ND)

> 99.9 (ND)

< 0.1

45,Xb

96.3 (81.7 to 99.8)

99.5 (98.1 to 99.9)

0.5

47,XXXb

100.0 (ND)

99.5 (98.1 to 99.9)

0.5

47,XXYb

100.0 (61.0 to 100.0)

100.0 (99.0 to 100.0)

0.0

IONA® test

(Premaitha Health

plc, UK)

MPSS

T21

> 99.0 (ND)

> 99.0 (ND)

< 1.0

T18

> 99.0 (ND)

> 99.0 (ND)

< 1.0

T13

> 99.0 (ND)

> 99.0 (ND)

< 1.0

(Laboratoire

CERBA, France)

MPSS

T21, T18

and T13

> 99.8 (ND)

> 99.8 (ND)

< 0.2

MaterniT21™

Plus test

(Sequenom Inc.,

USA)

MPSS

T21

99.1 (96.6 to 99.9)

99.9 (99.7 to 99.9)

0.1

T18

> 99.9 (93.9 to 100.0)

99.6 (99.3 to 99.7)

0.4

T13

91.7 (61.0 to 99.0)

99.7 (98.5 to 99.5)

0.3

combined sex

aneuploidies

96.2 (ND)

99.7 (ND)

0.3

MomGuard™

(LabGenomics,

Korea)

MPSS

T21, T18, T13,

45,X, 47,XXX,

47,XXY, 47,XYY

> 99.0 (ND)

ND

ND

NIFTY™ test

(Bejing Genomics

Institute (BGI),

China)

MPSS

T21

99.2 (ND)

100 (ND)

0

T18

98.2 (ND)

100 (ND)

0

T13

100 (ND)

100 (ND)

0

45,X

> 99.9 (ND)

> 99.9 (ND)

< 0.1

Panorama™

prenatal testc

(Natera, Inc., USA)

SNP TMPS

T21

> 99.9 (ND)

100 (ND)

0

T18

> 96.4 (ND)

> 99.9 (ND)

< 0.1

T13

> 99.9 (ND)

100 (ND)

0

45,X

> 92.9 (ND)

> 99.9 (ND)

< 0.1

PrenaTest®

(LifeCodexx AG,

Germany)

MPSS

T21

98.7 (ND)

99.9 (ND)

0.1

T18

100 (ND)

T13

100 (ND)

45,X

90.9 (ND)

98.8 (ND)

1.2

47,XYY

100 (ND)

Prendia

(Genesupport,

Switzerland)

MPSS

T21

100.0 (88.8 to 100.0)

100.0 (98.0 to 100.0)

0.0

T18

95.8 (76.8 to 99.7)

100.0 (97.0 to 100.0)

0.0

T13

100.0 (74.6 to 100.0)

100.0 (98.1 to 100.0)

0.0

45,X

100.0 (74.6 to 100.0)

100.0 (98.1 to 100.0)

0.0

47,XXX

100.0 (46.2 to 100.0)

100.0 (98.2 to 100.0)

0.0

Tranquility

(Genoma,

Switzerland)

MPSS

T21

99.9 (ND)

99.8 (ND)

0.2

T18

99.9 (ND)

99.9 (ND)

0.1

T13

99.9 (ND)

99.7 (ND)

0.3

verifi® prenatal

test

(Illumina, Inc., USA)

MPSS

T21

99.5 (98.7 to 99.5)

99.8 (98.9 to 99.9)

0.2

T18

97.3 (94.2 to 98.2)

99.7 (99.5 to 99.9)

0.3

T13

98.0 (95.6 to 98.9)

99.8 (99.8 to 99.9)

0.2

45,X

95.0 (75.1 to 99.9)

99.0 (97.6 to 99.7)

1.0

VisibiliT™

(Sequenom Inc.,

USA)

MPSS

T21

> 99.0 (80.8 to 100)

> 99.9 (99.5 to 100)

< 0.1

T18

> 99.0 (65.5 to 100)

> 99.9 (99.5 to 100)

< 0.1

45,X: Turner syndrome, 47,XXX: triple X syndrome, 47,XXY: Klinefelter syndrome, T21: trisomy 21, T18: trisomy 18, T13: trisomy 13 CI: confidence interval, MPSS: massively parallel shotgun sequencing, ND: no data available, TMPS: targeted massively parallel sequencing and SNP: single nucleotide polymorphism.

a(Ariosa Diagnostics 2016; BGI 2014; BGI 2016; Berry Genomics 2016; Genoma 2016; Genome Care 2016; Illumina 2014; Illumina 2016; LabGenomics 2016; LifeCodexx 2016; Natera 2016; Genesupport 2016; Premaitha Health plc 2016; Sequenom 2016).

b(Hooks 2014).

cDNA of maternal and paternal origin are needed.

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Table 2. Reported accuracy of commercially available genomics‐based non‐invasive prenatal testsa
Table 3. Traditional screening tests (mostly for T21)a

Screening tests

First trimester

(before 14 weeks’ gestation)

Second trimester

(14 to 20 weeks’ gestation)

Ultrasonography

  • NT measurement

  • Various morphologic measurements that modify the prior risk established

Combined test

  • hCG (free β or total)

  • PAPP‐A

  • NT measurement

NA

Triple test

NA

  • hCG (free β or total)

  • uE3

  • AFP

Quadruple test

NA

  • hCG (free β or total)

  • uE3

  • AFP

  • inhibin A

Sequential testb

  • free β hCG

  • PAPP‐A

  • NT measurement

  • Invasive test is offered if 1st trimester result is positive

  • Quadruple test is offered if 1st trimester result is negative

Contingent testb

  • free β hCG

  • PAPP‐A

  • NT measurement

  • Invasive test is offered if 1st trimester result is positive

  • Quadruple test is offered after an intermediate 1st trimester result

  • No test is offered after a low‐risk result

Serum integrated testc

  • PAPP‐A

  • Triple or Quadruple test

Integrated testc

  • PAPP‐A

  • NT measurement

  • Quadruple test

Maternal age is often included in the algorithm for prenatal screening tests. AFP: alpha‐fetoprotein, hCG: human chorionic gonadotropin, NA: not applicable, NT: nuchal translucency, PAPP‐A: pregnancy associated plasma protein A and uE3: unconjugated estriol.

a(Gekas 2009; Okun 2008; Wald 2005).
bA test result was available after first‐trimester screening test.
cSingle test result available after second‐trimester screening test.

Figuras y tablas -
Table 3. Traditional screening tests (mostly for T21)a
Table 4. Characteristics of included studies by type of gNIPT

Study ID

Target condition(s)

Study design and

participants

Prior risk

Index test details

Cutpoint

Reference standard

Comparator

MPSS

Alberti 2015

T21

  • Case‐control study (1:2) from a prospective cohort

  • 976 singleton pregnancies enrolled, 183 were analysed

High risk

  • Illumina HiSeq 2000 sequencer without multiplexing

  • In‐house test

  • FF measured

Z score of 3

Fetal karyotypea

Benachi 2015

T21, T18, T13

  • Blinded retrospective study

  • 900 singleton or twin pregnancies enrolled, 886 were analysed

High risk

  • Illumina v3 flow‐cell on a HiSeq 1500 sequencer in 12‐plex

  • Commercial ‐ Laboratoire CERBA

  • FF measured

Z score of 3 for T21; 3.95 for T18 and T13

Fetal karyotype or neonatal clinical examination

Bianchi 2012

T21, T18, T13,

45,X, 47,XXX, 47,XXY, 47,XYY

  • Nested case‐control study (1:4) from a prospective cohort (MELISSA)

  • 2882 singleton pregnancies enrolled, 503 for T21, 502 for T18, 501 for T13 and 489 for 45,X were analysed

High risk

  • Illumina HiSeq 2000 sequencer in 6‐plex

  • Commercial test ‐ Verinata

  • FF measured

Different cutpoints used for autosomes and SCAb

Fetal karyotype

Bianchi 2013

T21, T18, T13,

45,X

  • Retrospective study from stored plasma

  • 2882 singleton pregnancies enrolled, 113 were analysed

High risk

  • Illumina TrueSeq 3.0 sequencing chemistry

  • Commercial test ‐ Verinata

Different cutpoints used for autosomes and SCAb

Fetal karyotype

Bianchi 2014a

T21, T18, T13

  • Blinded prospective cohort study

  • 2052 singleton pregnancies enrolled, 1952 for T21 and T18, and 1914 for T13 were analysed

High, low

and without

prior risk

  • Illumina HiSeq 2000 in 8‐plex

  • Commercial ‐ verifi® prenatal test

  • FF measured

NCV of 4; resequenced if NCV is between 3 and 4

Fetal or postnatal karyotype, neonatal clinical examination or medical record from birth

Standard screening (T21 only with mixed cutpoints) which include first‐trimester combined test or a second‐trimester result (quadruple, serum integrated, fully integrated, or sequential).

Bijok 2014

T21, T18, T13

  • Prospective cohort study

  • 10 singleton pregnancies enrolled, 9 were analysed

High risk

  • IIIumina Genome Analyzer IIx or HiSeq 2000 sequencer in multiplex

  • Commercial ‐ NIFTY™ test, BGI‐Shenzhen

  • FF measured

NR

Fetal karyotype

Canick 2012

T21, T18, T13

  • Case‐control study

  • 4664 pregnant women enrolled, 27 multifetal pregnancies were analysed

High risk

  • Illumina HiSeq 2000 sequencer in 4‐plex

  • Commercial test ‐ Sequenom, Inc.

  • FF measured

Z score of 3

Fetal karyotype

Chen 2011

T18, T13

  • Nested case‐control study from prospective and retrospective cohorts

  • 392 singleton pregnancies enrolled, 289 were analysed

High risk

  • Illumina Genome Analyzer IIx in 2‐plex

  • Commercial test ‐ Sequenom, Inc.

Z score of 3

Fetal karyotype

Chiu 2011

T21

  • Blinded case‐control study (1:5) from prospective and retrospective cohorts

  • 824 singleton pregnancies enrolled, 753 were analysed by 8‐plex method and 314 by 2‐plex method

Mostly high

(> 1/300)

and some intermediate

risk (between 1/300 and 1/1000)

  • Illumina Genome Analyzer II in 8‐plex and 2‐plex

  • Commercial test ‐ Sequenom, Inc.

  • FF measured

Z score of 3

Fetal karyotype

Ehrich 2011

T21

  • Blinded case‐control study (1:11) from prospective cohort

  • 480 pregnant women enrolled, 449 were analysed

High risk

  • Illumina Genome Analyzer IIx sequencer in 4‐plex

  • Commercial test ‐ Sequenom, Inc.

  • FF measured

Z score of 2.5

Fetal karyotype

Fiorentino 2016

T21, T18, T13

  • Blinded prospective cohort study

  • 7103 singleton pregnancies enrolled, 7082 were analysed

Mostly high risk

and without

prior risk

  • Illumina HiSeq 2500 sequencer in 15‐plex, SAFeR™ algorithm.

  • Commercial ‐ Genoma's prenatal test

  • FF measured

NCV of 4; aneuploidy suspected if NCV is between 3 and 4

Fetal karyotype or neonatal clinical examination

Hou 2012

T21, T18, T13,

45,X, 47,XXX, 47,XXY, 47,XYY

  • Prospective cohort study

  • 308 singleton pregnancies enrolled, 205 were analysed

High risk

  • IIIumina HiSeq 2000 sequencer

  • Commercial test ‐ BGI‐Shenzhen

NR

Fetal karyotype

Huang 2014

T21, T18

  • Blinded prospective cohort study

  • 189 twin pregnancies enrolled, 189 were analysed

High risk

  • IIIumina Genome Analyzer IIx or HiSeq 2000 sequencer

  • Commercial test ‐ BGI‐Shenzhen

L score of 1 and t score of 2.5 including warning zone

Fetal karyotype

Jeon 2014

T21, T18

  • Prospective cohort study

  • 155 singleton pregnancies enrolled, 155 were analysed

High risk

  • Ion Torrent PGM or HiSeq 2000 sequencers, 10 samples per Chip

  • Commercial test ‐ Genome Care

Z score of 2.566 for T21; 2.459 for T18.

Fetal karyotype

Jiang 2012

T21, T18, T13,

45,X, 47,XXY,

47, XYY

  • Prospective cohort study

  • 903 pregnant women enrolled, 903 were analysed

High risk

  • IIIumina Genome Analyzer IIx or HiSeq 2000 sequencer in multiplex

  • Commercial ‐ NIFTY™ test, BGI‐Shenzhen

  • FF measured

Different cutpoints used for autosomes and SCAb

Fetal karyotype

Johansen 2016

T21, T18, T13

  • Prospective cohort study

  • 375 singleton pregnancies enrolled, 173 were analysed

High risk

  • Ion Proton™ sequencer in 5‐plex

  • In‐house test

  • FF measured

Z score of 4 (unclassified if Z score is between 3 and 4) and WISECONDOR of 1%

Fetal karyotype

Ke 2015

T21, T18, T13

  • Prospective cohort study

  • 2340 singleton pregnancies enrolled, 2340 were analysed

High risk

  • High throughput sequencing platform

  • Commercial test ‐ BGI‐Shenzhen

T score of 3

Fetal karyotype or newborn outcome

Kim 2016

T21

  • Blinded prospective cohort study

  • 101 pregnant women enrolled, 101 were analysed

High risk

  • Ion Proton™ sequencer in multiplex

  • Commercial test ‐ Genome Care

Z score of 2.10 for Ion Proton™

Fetal karyotype

Lau 2012

T21, T18, T13,

45,X, 47,XXX, 47,XXY, 47,XYY

  • Blinded prospective cohort study

  • 108 singleton pregnancies enrolled, 108 were analysed

Mostly

high risk

  • IIIumina HiSeq 2000 sequencers in 12‐plex

  • Commercial ‐ NIFTY™ test, BGI‐Shenzhen

Different cutpoints used for autosomes and SCAb

Fetal karyotype

Lee 2015

T21, T18, T13

and SCA (no case found)

  • Blinded prospective cohort study

  • 93 singleton and multifetal pregnancies enrolled, 92 were analysed

High risk

  • Illumina MiSeq sequencer in 12‐plex or NextSeq sequencer in 96‐plex

  • Commercial test ‐ MomGuard™, LabGenomics

  • FF measured

Z score of 4 (intermediate risk if Z score is between 2.5 and 4) for T21 and T18; 2.8 for T13 (intermediate risk if Z score is between 1.9 and 2.8)

Fetal or neonatal karyotype

Lefkowitz 2016

T21, T18, T13,

45,X, 47,XXX, 47,XXY, 47,XYY

  • Retrospective cohort, blinded case‐control study

  • 5321 pregnant women enrolled but 1222 were selected and 1166 were analysed

High risk

  • IIIumina HiSeq 2000 sequencer in 6‐plex or uniplex

  • Commercial test ‐ Sequenom, Inc.

  • FF measured

Different cutpoints used for autosomes and SCAb

Fetal karyotype

Liang 2013

T21, T18, T13,

45,X, 47,XXX, 47,XXY, 47,XYY

  • Blinded prospective cohort study

  • 435 singleton and twin pregnancies enrolled, 412 were analysed

High risk

  • Illumina HiSeq 2000 sequencer in 8‐plex or 12‐plex

  • Commercial test ‐ Berry Genomics Co. Ltd.

  • FF measured

Different cutpoints used for autosomes and SCAb

Fetal karyotype

Liu 2012

T21, T18, T13,

45,X, 47,XXX, 47,XXY, 47,XYY

  • Prospective cohort study

  • 153 pregnant women enrolled, 153 were analysed

High risk

  • Illumina HiSeq sequencer in multiplex.

Z score of 3

Fetal karyotype

Ma 2016

T21, T18, T13

  • Blinded retrospective (archived samples) and prospective cohorts study

  • 10,598 singleton pregnancies enrolled, 10,579 were analysed

High and

low risk

  • Sequencing on BGISEQ‐1000 in 16 or 24‐plex

  • Commercial test ‐ BGI‐Shenzhen

Z score of 3

Fetal karyotype or postnatal follow‐up

Mazloom 2013

45,X, 47,XXX, 47,XXY, 47,XYY

  • Blinded prospective cohort study

  • 1975 singleton pregnancies enrolled, 411 samples from the validation set were analysed

High risk

  • Illumina v3 flow‐cell on a HiSeq 2000 sequencer in 12‐plex

  • Laboratory test development by Sequenom, Inc.

  • FF measured

Different cutpoints used for the four SCAb

Fetal karyotype

Palomaki 2012

T21, T18, T13

  • Nested case‐control study (1:3)

  • 4664 pregnant women enrolled but 1988 singleton pregnancies were selected and 1971 were analysed

High risk

  • Illumina HiSeq 2000 sequencer in 4‐plex

  • Commercial test ‐ Sequenom, Inc.

  • FF measured

Z score of 3 for T21; 3.88 for T18; 7.17 for T13

Fetal karyotype

Papageorghiou 2016a

T21, T18, T13

  • Retrospective cohort, case‐control study (1:9)

  • 442 singleton and twin pregnancies enrolled, 426 singleton pregnancies were analysed

High risk

  • Ion Proton™ sequencer in 8‐plex

  • Commercial ‐ IONA® test, Premaitha Health (public limited company in UK)

  • FF measured

Likelihood ratio of 1 and maternal age‐adjusted probability risk score

Fetal karyotype or medical record from birth

Papageorghiou 2016b

T21, T18, T13

  • Retrospective cohort, case‐control study (1:9)

  • 442 singleton and twin pregnancies enrolled, 11 twin pregnancies were analysed

High risk

  • Ion Proton™ sequencer in 8‐plex

  • Commercial ‐ IONA® test, Premaitha Health (public limited company in UK)

  • FF measured

Likelihood ratio of 1 and maternal age‐adjusted probability risk score

Fetal karyotype or medical record from birth

Poon 2016

T21, T18, T13

  • Retrospective cohort, blinded nested case‐control study

  • 242 singleton pregnancies enrolled, 241 were analysed

High risk

  • Ion Proton™ sequencer, IONA® software algorithm

  • Commercial ‐ IONA® test, Premaitha Health (public limited company in UK)

  • FF measured

NR (authors used the same gNIPT than Papageorghiou 2016a)

Fetal karyotype

Porreco 2014

T21, T18, T13,

45,X, 47,XXX, 47,XXY, 47,XYY

  • Blinded prospective cohort study

  • 4170 singleton pregnancies enrolled, 3322 for autosomes, 3278 for 45,X and 47,XXX and 3201 for 47,XXY and 47,XYY were analysed

High risk

  • Illumina HiSeq 2000 sequencer in 12‐plex

  • Commercial test ‐ Sequenom, Inc.

  • FF measured

Different cutpoints used for autosomes and SCAb

Fetal karyotype or medical record from birth

Sehnert 2011

T21, T18, T13,

45,X

  • Retrospective (archived samples) cohort study

  • 1014 singleton and multifetal pregnancies enrolled but only 47 singleton pregnancies in the test set were analysed in this review.

High risk

  • IIIumina Genome Analyzer IIx sequencer in uniplex

  • Commercial test ‐ Verinata

Different cutpoints used for autosomes and SCAb

Fetal karyotype

Shaw 2014

T21, T18, T13,

45,X, 47, XXX, 47,XXY, 47,XYY

  • Prospective cohort study

  • 201 singleton and multifetal pregnancies enrolled, 200 were analysed

High and

low risk

  • Illumina v2 HiSeq 2000 sequencer in 12‐plex

  • Commercial test ‐ Berry Genomics Co. Ltd.

Different cutpoints used for autosomes and SCAb

Fetal karyotype or medical record from birth

Song 2013

T21, T18, T13,

45,X, 47,XXX, 47, XXY, 47,XYY (SCA data not shown in this review)

  • Blinded prospective cohort study

  • 1916 singleton pregnancies enrolled, 1741 were analysed

Without prior

risk

  • Illumina v2 HiSeq2000 in 12‐plex

  • Commercial test‐ Berry Genomics Co. Ltd.

Z score of 3

Fetal or postnatal karyotype or medical record from birth

Triple test for T21 and T18 (cutpoint of 1 in 270).

Song 2015

T21, T18, T13,

45,X, 47,XXX,

47,XYY

  • Blinded prospective cohort study

  • 213 singleton pregnancies enrolled, 204 were analysed

High risk

  • Illumina v2 HiSeq 2000 sequencer in 12‐plex

  • Commercial test ‐ Berry Genomics Co. Ltd.

  • FF measured

Z score of 3

Fetal karyotype or neonatal clinical examination or both

Stumm 2014

T21, T18, T13

  • Prospective cohort, blinded study for T21 and unblinded for T18 and T13

  • 522 singleton pregnancies enrolled, 472 were analysed

High risk

  • Illumina HiSeq 2000 sequencer in 12‐plex (DAP.21 algorithm without CG correction)

  • Commercial test ‐ LifeCodexx AG

  • FF measured

MAD‐based Z score of 3 for T21; 3.2 for T18; 3.9 for T13

Fetal karyotype

Sukhikh 2015

T21, T18, T13,

45,X

  • Prospective cohort study

  • 200 pregnant women enrolled, 200 were analysed

High risk

  • Ion Proton™ sequencer

  • In‐house test

T score of 5 for T21 and T18; 4 for T13; 0.04 Chrom. X and 0.04 Chrom. Y for 45,X

Fetal karyotype

Sung‐Hee 2015

T21, T18, T13,

45,X, 47,XXX, 47,XXY, 47,XYY

  • Retrospective study

  • 918 singleton pregnancies enrolled, 901 were analysed

High risk

  • IIIumina Genome Analyzer IIx or HiSeq 2000 sequencer in 12‐plex

  • Commercial ‐ NIFTY™ test, BGI‐Shenzhen

  • FF measured

L score of 1 and t score of 2.5

Fetal karyotype or medical record from birth

Tynan 2016

T21, T18, T13

  • Blinded retrospective cohort study

  • 1100 singleton pregnancies enrolled, 1048 were analysed

High and

without prior

risk

  • Illumina HiSeq 2000 or HiSeq 2500 sequencers in multiplex

  • Commercial ‐ VisibiliT™ test, Sequenom, Inc.

  • FF measured

risk score of 1%

Fetal karyotype or medical record from birth

Wang 2014

T21, T18, T13,

45,X

  • Prospective cohort study

  • 136 singleton pregnancies enrolled, 136 were analysed

High risk

  • Illumina HiSeq 2000 sequencer

  • Commercial ‐ NIFTY™ test, BGI‐Shenzhen

NR

Fetal or neonatal karyotype or clinical examination at 42 days after birth or both

Wang 2015a

T21, T18, T13, 45,X, 47,XXX, 47,XXY, 47,XYY

  • Prospective cohort study

  • 917 pregnant women enrolled, 917 were analysed

High risk

  • Illumina v2 HiSeq 2000 flow cell on a HiSeq sequencer

  • Commercial test ‐ Berry Genomics Co. Ltd

Z score of 3 for T21, T18 and T13; ‐3 for Chrom. X and 3 for Chrom. Y for sex Chrom. classification.

Fetal karyotype or clinical follow‐up to 6 months from birth

Yao 2014

T21, T18, T13 and SCA (SCA data not shown in this review)

  • Retrospective study

  • 5950 singleton pregnancies enrolled, 5530 were analysed

High, low

and without

prior risk

  • IIIumina Genome Analyzer IIx or HiSeq 2000 sequencer in 12‐plex

  • Commercial ‐ NIFTY™ test, BGI‐Shenzhen

  • FF measured

Different cutpoints used for autosomes and SCAb

Fetal karyotype or clinical follow‐up

Zhang 2016

T21, T18, 45,X, 47,XXX (SCA data not shown in this review)

  • Blinded prospective cohort study

  • 87 singleton pregnancies enrolled, 87 were analysed

High risk

  • Illumina HiSeq 2000 sequencer in 12‐plex

  • Commercial test ‐ Berry Genomics Co. Ltd.

Z score of 3 for T21 (no other cutpoint reported)

Fetal or neonatal karyotype or neonatal clinical examination

Zhou 2014a

T21, T18, T13

  • Blinded prospective cohort study

  • 306 singleton pregnancies enrolled, 301 were analysed

High, low

and without

prior risk

  • IIIumina Genome Analyzer IIx or HiSeq 2000 sequencer in 12‐plex

  • Commercial ‐ NIFTY™ test, BGI‐Shenzhen

  • FF measured

L score of 1 and t score of 2.5

Fetal or neonatal karyotype or birth outcome

Zhou 2014b

T21, T18, T13

  • Blinded prospective cohort study

  • 7705 singleton pregnancies enrolled, 3950 were analysed

High, low

and without

prior risk

  • IIIumina Genome Analyzer IIx or HiSeq 2000 sequencer in 12‐plex

  • Commercial ‐ NIFTY™ test, BGI‐Shenzhen

  • FF measured

L score of 1 and t score of 2.5

Fetal or neonatal karyotype or birth outcome

TMPS

Ashoor 2012

T21, T18

  • Nested case‐control study (1:3) from a prospective cohort

  • 400 singleton pregnancies enrolled, 397 were analysed

High risk

  • DANSR assay (FORTE algorithm), Illumina HiSeq 2000 in 96‐plex

  • Commercial ‐ Harmony™ prenatal test, Ariosa Diagnostics, Inc.

NR (usually Harmony™ prenatal test uses FORTE risk score of 1%)

Fetal karyotype

Ashoor 2013

T13

  • Blinded prospective cohort study

  • 2167 singleton pregnancies enrolled, 1949 were analysed

High and

low risk

  • DANSR assay (FORTE algorithm), Illumina HiSeq 2000 in 96‐plex

  • Commercial ‐ Harmony™ prenatal test, Ariosa Diagnostics, Inc.

  • FF measured

FORTE risk score of 1%

Fetal karyotype or neonatal clinical examination

Bevilacqua 2015

T21, T18, T13

  • Prospective cohort study

  • 515 multifetal pregnancies enrolled, 340 were analysed

  • Women with singleton pregnancies were excluded (incomplete 2 x 2 table).

High and without

prior risk

  • DANSR assay (FORTE algorithm), Illumina HiSeq 2000 in 96‐plex

  • Commercial ‐ Harmony™ prenatal test, Ariosa Diagnostics, Inc.

  • FF measured

NR (usually Harmony™ prenatal test uses FORTE risk score of 1%)

Fetal or neonatal karyotype

Comas 2015

T21, T18, T13, 45,X, 47,XXX, 47, XXY, 47,XYY (SCA data not shown in this review)

  • Blinded prospective cohort study

  • 333 singleton pregnancies enrolled, 312 were analysed

High and without

prior risk

  • DANSR assay (FORTE algorithm) or SNP‐based method

  • Commercial ‐ Panorama™ test, Natera, Inc. or Harmony™ prenatal test, Ariosa Diagnostics, Inc.

  • FF measured

Harmony™ prenatal test: NR (usually Harmony™ prenatal test uses FORTE risk score of 1%)
Panorama™ test: NR

Fetal karyotype or neonatal clinical examination

del Mar Gil 2014

T21, T18, T13

  • Retrospective cohort study

  • 207 multifetal pregnancies enrolled, 192 twin pregnancies were analysed

Without prior

risk

  • DANSR assay (FORTE algorithm), Illumina HiSeq 2000 in 96‐plex

  • Commercial ‐ Harmony™ prenatal test, Ariosa Diagnostics, Inc.

  • FF measured

NR (usually Harmony™ prenatal test uses FORTE risk score of 1%)

Fetal karyotype

Gil 2016

T21, T18, T13

  • Prospective cohort study

  • 11,692 singleton pregnancies enrolled, 3633 were analysed

High

and intermediate

riskc

  • DANSR assay (usually with FORTE algorithm)

  • Commercial ‐ Harmony™ prenatal test, Ariosa Diagnostics, Inc.

NR (usually Harmony™ prenatal test uses FORTE risk score of 1%)

Fetal or postnatal karyotype or neonatal clinical examination

Hall 2014

T13

  • Case‐control study (1:3)/1000 singleton pregnancies enrolled, 64 were analysed.

High risk

  • SNP‐based method (NATUS algorithm), IIIumina Genome Analyzer IIx or HiSeq sequencer, 11,000 or 19,488‐plex targeted PCR

  • Commercial ‐ Natera's prenatal test

  • FF measured

NR

Fetal karyotype or genetic testing of cord blood, buccal, saliva or products of conception

Hooks 2014

45,X, 47,XXX, 47, XXY, 47,XYY

  • Case‐control study from archived samples

  • 432 singleton pregnancies enrolled, 414 were analysed

High risk

  • DANSR assay (FORTE algorithm), Illumina HiSeq 2000 in 96‐plex

  • Commercial ‐ Harmony™ prenatal test, Ariosa Diagnostics, Inc.

  • FF measured

NR (usually Harmony™ prenatal test uses FORTE risk score of 1%)

Fetal karyotype

Jackson 2014

T21, T18, T13

  • Prospective cohort study

  • 1228 pregnant women enrolled, 1161 were analysed

High and

low risk

  • DANSR assay (FORTE algorithm)

  • Commercial ‐ Harmony™ prenatal test, Ariosa Diagnostics, Inc.

NR (usually Harmony™ prenatal test uses FORTE risk score of 1%)

Fetal karyotype or medical record from birth

Korostelev 2014

T21, T18, T13, 45,X, 47,XXX, 47, XXY, 47,XYY

  • Prospective cohort study

  • 1968 singleton pregnancies enrolled, 685 were analysed

High and

without prior

risk

  • SNP‐based method (NATUS algorithm), IIIumina Genome Analyzer IIx or HiSeq sequencer, > 19,000‐plex targeted PCR

  • Commercial ‐ Natera's prenatal test

  • FF measured

NR

Fetal karyotype or medical record from birth

Nicolaides 2012

T21, T18

  • Retrospective study from archived plasma

  • 2230 singleton pregnancies enrolled, 1949 were analysed

Without prior

risk

  • DANSR assay (usually with FORTE algorithm)

  • Commercial ‐ Harmony™ prenatal test, Ariosa Diagnostics, Inc.

  • FF measured

Risk score of 1%

Fetal karyotype or neonatal clinical examination

First‐trimester combined test (cutpoint of 1 in 150).

Nicolaides 2013

T21, T18, T13, 45,X, 47,XXX, 47,XXY, 47,XYY

  • Blinded prospective cohort study

  • 242 singleton pregnancies enrolled, 229 were analysed

High risk

  • SNP‐based method (NATUS algorithm), IIIumina Genome Analyzer IIx or HiSeq sequencer, 19,488‐plex targeted PCR

  • Commercial ‐ Natera's prenatal test

  • FF measured

NR

Fetal karyotype

Nicolaides 2014a

45,X, 47,XXX, 47,XXY, 47,XYY

  • Case‐control study (archived samples)

  • 177 singleton pregnancies enrolled, 172 were analysed

High risk

  • DANSR assay (FORTE algorithm), Illumina HiSeq 2000 in 96‐plex

  • Commercial ‐ Harmony™ prenatal test

  • FF measured

FORTE risk score of 1%

Fetal karyotype

Norton 2012

T21, T18

  • Blinded prospective cohort study

  • 4002 singleton pregnancies enrolled, 3080 were analysed

High risk

  • DANSR assay (FORTE algorithm), Illumina HiSeq 2000 in 96‐plex

  • Commercial test‐ Ariosa Diagnostics, Inc.

  • FF measured

FORTE risk score of 1%

Fetal karyotype

Norton 2015

T21, T18, T13

  • Blinded prospective cohort study

  • 18,955 singleton pregnancies enrolled, 15,841 were analysed

Without prior

risk

  • DANSR assay (FORTE algorithm)

  • Commercial ‐ Harmony™ prenatal test, Ariosa Diagnostics, Inc.

  • FF measured

NR (usually Harmony™ prenatal test uses FORTE risk score of 1%)

Fetal or postnatal karyotype, neonatal clinical examination or medical record from birth

First‐trimester combined test (cutpoint of 1 in 270 for T21 and 1 in 150 for T18 and T13).

Pergament 2014

T21, T18, T13, 45,X

  • Blinded prospective cohort study

  • 1064 singleton pregnancies enrolled, 963 were analysed

High and

low risk

  • SNP‐based method (NATUS algorithm), IIIumina Genome Analyzer IIx or HiSeq sequencer, 19,488‐plex targeted PCR

  • Commercial ‐ Natera's prenatal test

  • FF measured

NR

Fetal karyotype or genetic testing of cord blood, buccal, saliva or products of conception or birth outcome

Persico 2016

T21, T18, 45,X, 47,XXX, 47,XXY, 47,XYY

  • Blinded prospective cohort study

  • 259 singleton pregnancies enrolled, 249 were analysed

High risk

  • SNP‐based method (NATUS algorithm), IIIumina Genome Analyzer IIx or HiSeq sequencer, 19,488‐plex targeted PCR

  • Commercial ‐ Natera's prenatal test

  • FF measured

Risk score of 1%

Fetal karyotype

Quezada 2015

T21, T18, T13

  • Prospective cohort study

  • 2905 singleton pregnancies enrolled, 2785 were analysed

Without prior

risk

  • DANSR assay (FORTE algorithm)

  • Commercial ‐ Harmony™ prenatal test

  • FF measured

NR (usually Harmony™ prenatal test uses FORTE risk score of 1%)

Fetal or postnatal karyotype, neonatal clinical examination or medical record from birth

First‐trimester combined test (cutpoint of 1 in 100 for T21).

Samango‐Sprouse 2013

45,X, 47,XXX, 47,XXY, 47,XYY

  • Blinded prospective cohort study

  • 201 singleton pregnancies (with known SCA and euploid pregnancies) enrolled, 186 were analysed

High and

low risk

  • SNP‐based method (NATUS algorithm), IIIumina HiSeq sequencer, 19,488‐plex targeted PCR

  • Commercial ‐ Natera's prenatal test

  • FF measured

NR

Fetal karyotype or genetic testing of cord blood, buccal, saliva or products of conception

Sparks 2012a

T21, T18

  • Case‐control study from a prospective cohort

  • 338 singleton pregnancies enrolled, 167 were analysed

High risk

  • DANSR assay (FORTE algorithm), Illumina HiSeq 2000 in 96‐plex

  • Commercial test‐ Ariosa Diagnostics, Inc.

  • FF measured

NR

Fetal karyotype

Verweij 2013

T21

  • Blinded prospective cohort study

  • 595 singleton pregnancies enrolled, 504 were analysed

High risk

  • DANSR assay (FORTE algorithm), Illumina HiSeq 2000 in 96‐plex

  • Commercial test‐ Ariosa Diagnostics, Inc.

  • FF measured

FORTE risk score of 1%

Fetal karyotype

45,X: Turner syndrome, 47,XXX: triple X syndrome, 47,XXY: Klinefelter syndrome, DANSR: digital analysis of selected regions, FF: fetal fraction DNA, FORTE: fetal‐fraction optimised risk of trisomy evaluation, MAD: Median absolute deviation, MPSS: massively parallel shotgun sequencing, NATUS: Next‐generation Aneuploidy Test Using SNPs, NCV: normalised chromosome value, SCA: sex chromosome aneuploidy, SNP: single‐nucleotide polymorphism,TMPS: targeted massively parallel sequencing, T21: trisomy 21, T18: trisomy 18 and T13: trisomy 13.

aFetal karyotype include traditional banding techniques, spectral karyotype, fluorescence in situ hybridisation, array comparative genomic hybridisation or quantitative fluorescence polymerase chain reaction.

bDifferent cutpoints used for autosomes or SCA as follows:

Bianchi 2012: NCV of 4 (aneuploidy suspected if NCV is between 2.5 and 4) for T21, T18, and T13; NCV for Chrom. X of ‐4 and NCV for Chrom. Y of 2.5 for 45,X; NCV for Chrom. X of 4 and NCV for Chrom. Y of 2.5 for 47,XXX; NCV for Chrom. X between ‐2.5 and 2.5 and NCV for Chrom. Y > 33 for 47,XXY; NCV for Chrom. X of ‐4 and NCV for Chrom. Y of 4 for 47,XYY with NCV for Chrom. Y is two times greater than expected NCV Chrom. X.

Bianchi 2013: NCV of 4 (aneuploidy suspected if NCV is between 3 and 4) for T21, T18, and T13; NCV for Chrom. X of ‐3 and NCV for Chrom. Y of 3 for 45,X.

Jiang 2012: t score of 3 and logarithmic LR of 1 for T21, T18 and T13; if female fetus, t score of ‐2.5 for 45,X and 47,XXX; t score of 2.5 combined with estimation of fetal ccfDNA concentration by Chrom. X and Y independently for 47,XXY and 47,XYY.

Lau 2012: Z score of 3 for T21, T18 and T13; if female fetus, Z score for Chrom. X of ‐3 for 45,X; if female fetus, Z score for Chrom. X of 3 for 47,XXX; if male fetus, Z score for Chrom. Y of 3 for 47,XXY.

Lefkowitz 2016: Z score of 3 for T21; Z score of 3.95 for T18 and T13; Z scores for SCA see Mazloom 2013.

Liang 2013: Z score of 3 for T21; 5.91 for T18; 5.72 for T13; ± 2.91 for Chrom. X and ± 3 for Chrom. Y for sex chromosome classification.

Mazloom 2013: Z score of 3.5 for 47,XXX (non‐reportable regions between 2.5 and 3.5); Z score of ‐3.5 for 45,X (non‐reportable regions between ‐2.5 and ‐3.5); Z score of ‐3.5 for 47,XYY with Chrom. Y representation; between ‐3.5 and 3.5 for 47,XXY with Chrom. Y representation.

Porreco 2014: Z score of 3 for T21; Z score of 3,95 for T18 and T13; Z score of 3.5 for 47,XXX (non‐reportable regions between 2.5 and 3.5); Z score of ‐3.5 for 45,X (non‐reportable regions between ‐2.5 and ‐3.5); Z score of ‐3.5 for 47,XYY with Chrom. Y representation; Z score between ‐3.5 and 3.5 for 47,XXY with Chrom. Y representation.

Sehnert 2011: NCV of 4 (unclassified if NCV is between 2.5 and 4) for T21, T18, and T13; NCV for Chrom. Y of ‐2.0 SDs from the mean of male samples and NCV for Chrom. X of ‐3.0 SDs from the mean of female samples for sex chromosome classification.

Shaw 2014: Z score of 3 for T21, T18, and T13; Z score of ‐3 for Chrom. X and 3 for Chrom. Y for sex chromosome classification.

Yao 2014: T score of 2.5 for T21, T18 and T13; if female fetus, T score for Chrom. X of ‐2.5 for 45,X and 2.5 for 47,XXX; if male fetus, T score for Chrom. X of 2.5 combined with estimation of fetal ccfDNA concentration by Chrom. X (expected value of zero) for 47,XXY; if male fetus, T score for Chrom. X of 2.5 and R‐value (the ratio of the fetal DNA fraction estimated by chromosome Y to that estimated by chromosome X) between 1.8 and 2.2 for 47,XYY.

cPregnant women with a first‐trimester combined test selected for their risk of fetal aneuploidy (cutpoint of 1 in 100 for high risk and 1 in 101 to 1 in 2500 for intermediate risk).

Figuras y tablas -
Table 4. Characteristics of included studies by type of gNIPT
Table 5. Manufacturers of gNIPT used in the included studies by prior risk of fetal aneuploidy

Company

Number of

studies

Number of

affected/unaffected

pregnanciesa

Number of studies

with pregnant

women without

prior risk of

fetal aneuploidy

Number of studies

with high‐risk

pregnant women

Number of studies with

mixed riskb cohort

Ariosa

Diagnostics, Inc.

15

594/32,302

4

6

5

Bejing Genomics

Institute (BGI)

12

427/24,724

0

7

5

Sequenom, Inc.

9

904/8486

0

7

2

Berry Genomics

Co. Ltd

6

147/3414

1

4

1

Natera, Inc.

6

276/2103

0

3

3

Illumina, Inc.

4

273/2342

0

3

1

In‐house

3

114/442

0

3

0

Premaitha

Health plc

3

99/579

0

3

0

Genome Care

2

21/235

0

2

0

CERBA

1

113/745

0

1

0

Genoma

1

105/6977

0

0

1

LabGenomics

1

8/84

0

1

0

LifeCodexx AG

1

55/417

0

1

0

Not reported

1

5/148

0

1

0

Total

65

3141/82,998

5

42

18

aWe included pregnancies with any other aneuploidy than the one under analysis with all euploid cases as "unaffected" pregnancies.

bMixed‐risk cohort included a mix of pregnant women without prior risk, low risk or high risk of fetal aneuploidy.

Figuras y tablas -
Table 5. Manufacturers of gNIPT used in the included studies by prior risk of fetal aneuploidy
Table 6. Reasons for patient exclusion

Study ID

Number of pregnant women enrolled

Reasons for exclusion

Number of women with results for 2 x 2 table analysis

Alberti 2015

976

  • 701 not selected for the case‐control study

  • 23 selected for reference set

  • 8 selected for pretesting phase

  • 47 low amount of DNA

  • 11 low fetal fraction DNA or assay failure

  • 3 haemolysed samples

Total: 793

183

Ashoor 2012

400

  • 3 samples failed amplification and sequencing

397

Ashoor 2013

2167

  • 165 selected for first phase (case‐control study not included in this review)

  • 53 failed amplification or sequencing

Total: 218

1949

Benachi 2015

900

  • 8 without reference standard result

  • 6 low fetal fraction DNA or result appeared atypical

Total: 14

886

Bevilacqua 2015

2362

  • 1847 not selected

  • 159 without follow‐up

  • 11 failed samples

  • 5 failed samples and were without follow‐up

Total: 2022

340

Bianchi 2012

2882

  • 127 ineligible

  • 45 without karyotype

  • 85 multifetal pregnancies

  • 2091 not selected for this case‐control study

  • 2 for tracking issue

  • 16 without fetal DNA detected

Total: 2366

In addition, other samples excluded from 2 x 2 tables for censored complex karyotype:

  • 13 for T21

  • 14 for T18

  • 15 for T13

  • 27 for 45,X

503 (T21)

502 (T18)

501 (T13)

489 (45,X)

Bianchi 2013

2882

  • 2769 not selected for the study

113

Bianchi 2014a

2052

  • 10 failed blood quality control

  • 72 without clinical outcome

  • 17 without gNIPT result

  • 28 without standard screening result

  • 1 without gNIPT result and without standard screening result

Total for T21 and T18: 100
Total for T13: 128

1952 (T21 and T18)

1914 (T13)

Bijok 2014

10

  • 1 low fetal fraction DNA

9

Canick 2012

4664

  • 4637 not selected for the case‐control study

27

Chen 2011

392

  • 103 selected for reference control

289

Chiu 2011

824

  • 46 failed quality control for blood sampling

  • 12 without karyotype

  • 2 twin pregnancies

  • 11 failed quality control for sequencing

Total: 71 (8‐plex)

753 (8‐plex)

Comas 2015

333

  • 17 without follow‐up

  • 3 unrepeated tests

  • 1 failed test second timea and without follow‐up

Total: 21

312

del Mar Gil 2014

207

  • 11 low fetal fraction DNA

  • 4 laboratory processing failures

Total: 15

192

Ehrich 2011

480

  • 13 preanalytic failure (including 9 for low plasma volume and 4 processing errors)

  • 18 failed quality control at second time (including 7 for low fetal fraction DNA)

Total: 31

449

Fiorentino 2016

7103

  • 21 failed quality control (unrepeated tests)

7082

Gil 2016

11,692

  • 7994 patients did not undergo a gNIPT

  • 45 failed tests first timeb

  • 20 failed tests second time

Total: 8059

3633

Hall 2014

> 1000

  • About 932 samples not selected for the case‐control study

  • 4 failed quality control

Total: 936

64

Hooks 2014

432

  • 18 low fetal fraction DNA, unusually high variation in ccfDNA counts or failed QC

414

Hou 2012

308

  • 103 patients did not undergo a gNIPT

205

Huang 2014

189

NR

189

Jackson 2014

1228

  • 7 with other abnormal ultrasound

  • 14 opted for CVS without gNIPT

  • 32 declined all testing

  • 14 failed tests twice

Total: 67

1161

Jeon 2014

155

NR

155

Jiang 2012

903

NR

903

Johansen 2016

375

  • 191 not selected for validation set

  • 11 low fetal fraction DNA

Total: 202

173

Ke 2015

2340

NR

2340

Kim 2016

101

NR

101

Korostelev 2014

1968

  • 1043 without follow‐up

  • 240 samples did not undergo a gNIPT

Total: 1283

685

Lau 2012

108

NR

108

Lee 2015

93

  • 1 low fetal fraction DNA

92

Lefkowitz 2016

5321

  • 4099 not selected for the study

  • 11 for incomplete follow‐up

  • 3 with confirmed mosaicism

  • 11 low fetal fraction DNA

  • 29 for technical reasons

  • 2 for maternal event

Total: 4155 (autosomes)

In addition:

  • 22 sequencing failures for SCA

Total: 4177 (SCA)

1166 (autosomes)
1144 (SCA)

Liang 2013

435

  • 11 without karyotype

  • 12 failed quality control

Total: 23

412

Liu 2012

153

NR

153

Ma 2016

10,598

  • 14 with incomplete follow‐up

  • 5 failed quality control

Total: 19

10,579

Mazloom 2013

1975

  • 1564 selected for the training set

411

Nicolaides 2012

2230

  • 181 ineligible

  • 46 low fetal fraction DNA

  • 54 assay failures

Total: 281

1949

Nicolaides 2013

242

  • 13 failed quality control

229

Nicolaides 2014a

177

  • 1 failed quality control

  • 4 low fetal fraction DNA

Total: 5

172

Norton 2012

4002

  • 774 ineligible

  • 57 low fetal fraction DNA

  • 91 assay failures

Total: 922

3080

Norton 2015

18,955

  • 381 ineligible

  • 64 withdrawn

  • 384 handling errors

  • 308 without standard screening test result

  • 1489 without follow‐up

  • 192 low fetal fraction DNA

  • 83 no fetal fraction DNA

  • 213 high assay variance or assay failures

Total: 3114

15,841

Palomaki 2012

4876

  • 2888 not selected for this study

  • 17 failed tests second time (mostly for low fetal fraction DNA)

Total: 2905

1971

Papageorghiou 2016a

442

  • 11 twin not selected

  • 3 low fetal fraction DNA

  • 2 failed quality control

Total: 16

426

Papageorghiou 2016b

442

  • 426 singleton not selected

  • 3 low fetal fraction

  • 2 failed quality control

Total: 431

11

Pergament 2014

1064

  • 13 not selected (other aneuploidies)

  • 85 samples failed quality control for all five chromosomes (including 65 for low fetal fraction DNA)

Total: 98

In addition,

  • 3 samples failed only for T21 (total for T21: 101)

  • 2 samples failed only for T18 and 45,X (total for T18 and 45,X: 100)

  • 1 sample failed only for T13 (total for T13: 99)

963 (T21)

964 (T18 and 45,X)

965 (T13)

Persico 2016

259

  • 8 low fetal fraction DNA

  • 2 failed internal quality control

Total: 10

249

Poon 2016

242

  • 1 low fetal fraction DNA

241

Porreco 2014

4170

  • 320 for insufficient sample volume

  • 390 failed quality control

  • 24 with incomplete follow‐up

  • 6 without invasive procedure

In addition,

  • 54 failed quality control and 54 for complex autosome karyotypesc (total: 108 for autosomes)

  • 102 failed quality control or otherd and 50 for complex SCA karyotype (total: 152 for 45,X and 47,XXX)

  • 182 low fetal fraction DNA or otherd and 47 for complex SCA karyotype (total: 229 for 47,XXY and 47,XYY)

3322 (T21, T18, T13)
3278 (45,X, 47,XXX)

3201 (47,XXY, 47,XYY)

Quezada 2015

2905

  • 66 without follow‐up

  • 1 lost in mail

  • 38 low fetal fraction DNA

  • 15 assay failures

Total: 120

2785

Samango‐Sprouse 2013

201

  • 12 low fetal fraction DNA or poor DNA quality

  • 2 without gNIPT result

  • 1 with conflicting algorithm metrics

Total: 15

186

Sehnert 2011

1014

  • 895 not selected for sequencing

  • 71 selected for training set

  • 1 twin pregnancy

Total: 967

47

Shaw 2014

201

  • 1 for early GA

200

Song 2013

1916

  • 102 without follow‐up

  • 64 failed quality control

  • 9 failed quality control and without follow‐up

Total: 175

1741

Song 2015

213

  • 8 without follow‐up

  • 1 failed quality control

Total: 9

204

Sparks 2012a

338

  • 171 selected for training set

167

Stumm 2014

522

  • 8 without reference standard

  • 9 without consent

  • 1 previously analysed

  • 14 failed sequencing quality control

  • 18 failed libraries

Total: 50

472

Sukhikh 2015

200

NR

200

Sung‐Hee 2015

918

  • 8 ineligible

  • 9 without follow‐up

Total: 17

901

Tynan 2016

1100

  • 28 library preparation failures or failed quality control

  • 24 for discretionary non reporting

Total: 52

1048

Verweij 2013

595

  • 75 ineligible

  • 7 low fetal fraction DNA

  • 9 laboratory processing failures or specimen issues

Total: 91

504

Wang 2014

136

NR

136

Wang 2015a

917

NR

917

Yao 2014

5950

  • 420 without follow‐up

5530

Zhang 2016

87

NR

87

Zhou 2014a

306

  • 5 without follow‐up

301

Zhou 2014b

7705

  • 4 low fetal fraction DNA

  • 3751 without follow‐up

Total: 3755

3950

ccfDNA: circulating cell‐free DNA, CVS: chorionic villi sampling, GA: gestational age, gNIPT: genomics‐based non‐invasive prenatal testing, NR: not reported by authors.

aSecond time: sample failed the second gNIPT assay.

bFirst time: sample failed the initial gNIPT assay.
cComplex autosome karyotypes are mosaic, triploidies, unbalanced rearrangements with missing or duplicated genetic material.
dOther are copy number variation of the X chromosome is confounded by maternal component and cannot be determined.

Figuras y tablas -
Table 6. Reasons for patient exclusion
Table 7. Proportion of pregnant women with a reference standard and assay failure during gNIPT process

Study ID

Failure rate at

first attempt

(%)

Repeated testsa

(%)

Failure rate of

repeated tests

(%)

Final failure rate

total (%)

Aneuploidb

samples

(%)

Euploidb

samples

(%)

MPSS

Alberti 2015

61/244 (25%)

0

NA

61/244 (25%)

NR

NR

Benachi 2015

42/892 (4.7%)

42 (100%) with second

aliquot

6/42 (14.3%)

6/892 (0.7%)

2.7%

0.4%

Bianchi 2012

16/519 (3.1%)

0

NA

16/356 (3.1%)

NR

NR

Bianchi 2014a

18/1970 (0.9%)

0c

NA

T21 and T18: 18/1970 (0.9%)

T13: 18/1932 (0.9%)

NR

NR

Bijok 2014

1/10 (10.0%)

0

NA

1/10 (10.0%)

50%

0%

Chiu 2011

11/764 (1.4%)

0

NA

11/764 (1.4%)

NR

NR

Ehrich 2011

20/467 (4.3%)

20 (100%) resequenced

18/20 (90%)

18/467 (3.9%)

NR

NR

Fiorentino 2016

100/7103 (1.4%)

79 (79%) with new

sampling

0 (0%)

21/7103 (0.3%)

0%

0.3%

Johansen 2016

NR

2 with second aliquot or

resequenced were in the

grey zone (between

affected and unaffected)

NR

11/184 (6%)d

5.8%

6.1%

Lee 2015

1/93 (1.1%)

0

NA

1/93 (1.1%)

NR

NR

Lefkowitz 2016

Autosomes: 42/1208 (3.5%)

SCA: 64/1208 (5.3%)

0

NA

Autosomes: 42/1208 (3.5%)

SCA: 64/1208 (5.3%)

Autosomes: 3.8%

SCA: 29.7%

Autosomes: 3.4%

SCA: 4.5%

Liang 2013

12/424 (2.8%)

0

NA

12/424 (2.8%)

NR

NR

Ma 2016

5/10,584 (0.05%)

0

NA

5/10,584 (0.05%)

NR

NR

Mazloom 2013

21/432 (4.9%)

0

NA

21/432 (4.9%)

11.8%

4.3%

Palomaki 2012

110/1988 (5.5%)

105 (95.5%) with second

aliquot and 5 (4.5%)

resequenced

17/110 (15.5%)

17/1988 (0.9%)

1.0%

0.8%

Papageorghiou 2016a

Papageorghiou 2016b

5/431 (1.2%)

0

NA

5/431 (1.2%)

NR

NR

Poon 2016

1/242 (0.4%)

0

NA

1/242 (0.4%)

0%

0.5%

Porreco 2014

Autosomes:

108/3430 (3.1%)

45,X and 47,XXX:

152/3430 (4.4%)

47,XXY and 47,XYY:

229/3430 (6.7%)

0

NA

Autosomes: 108/3430 (3.1%)

45,X and 47,XXX: 152/3430 (4.4%)

47,XXY and 47,XYY: 229/3430 (6.7%)

NR

NR

Song 2013

73/1814 (4.0%)

0

NA

73/1814 (4.0%)

0%

4.0%

Song 2015

1/205 (0.5%)

0

NA

1/205 (0.5%)

NR

NR

Stumm 2014

32/504 (6.3%)

0

NA

32/504 (6.3%)

3.5%

6.7%

Sung‐Hee 2015

21/908 (2.3%)

16 (76.2%) with new

sampling

2/16 (12.5%)

7/908 (0.8%)

NR

NR

Tynan 2016

52/1100 (4.7%)

0

NA

52/1100 (4.7%)

0%

4.9%

Yao 2014

0

0

NA

0

NA

NA

Zhou 2014a

0

0

NA

0

NA

NA

Zhou 2014b

141/3954 (3.6%)

141 (100%) with new

sampling

4/141 (2.8%)

4/3954 (0.1%)

NR

NR

Overall range of final assay failure for MPSS

0% to 25%

0% to 50%

0% to 6.7%

TMPS

Ashoor 2012

3/400 (0.8%)

0

NA

3/400 (0.8%)

0%

1%

Ashoor 2013

53/2002 (2.6%)

0

NA

53/2002 (2.6%)

0%

2.7%

Bevilacqua 2015

29/356 (8.1%)

26 (90%) with 2nd

aliquot

13/26 (50%)

16/356 (4.5%)

NR

NR

Comas 2015

9/316 (2.8%)

6 (67%) with new

sampling

1/6 (16.7%)

4/316 (1.3%)

NR

NR

del Mar Gil 2014

15/207 (7.2%)

0

NA

15/207 (7.2%)

23%

6%

Gil 2016

99/3698 (2.8%)

54 (54,5%) with new

sampling

20/54 (37%)

65/3698 (1.8%)

NR

NR

Hall 2014

4/68 (5.9%)

0

NA

4/68 (5.9%)

11.8%

3.9%

Hooks 2014

18/432 (4.2%)

0

NA

18/432 (4.2%)

NR

NR

Jackson 2014

NR

NR

14 (NR)

14/1175 (1.2%)

NR

NR

Nicolaides 2012

100/2049 (4.9%)

0

NA

100/2049 (4.9%)

9.1%

4.9%

Nicolaides 2013

13/242 (5.4%)

0

NA

13/242 (5.4%)

6.3%

5.2%

Nicolaides 2014a

5/177 (2.8%)

0

NA

5/177 (2.8%)

5.1%

1.7%

Norton 2012

148/3228 (4.6%)

0

NA

148/3228 (4.6%)

NR

NR

Norton 2015

488/16,329 (3.0%)

0

NA

488/16,329 (3.0%)

20.6%

2.9%

Pergament 2014

T21: 88/1051 (8.4%)

T18, 45,X: 87/1052 (8.3%)

T13: 86/1053 (8.2%)

0

NA

T21: 88/1051 (8.4%)

T18, 45,X: 87/1052 (8.3%)

T13: 86/1053 (8.2%)

All five chromosomes

(n = 85): 15.2%

All five chromosomes

(n = 85): 7.1%

Persico 2016

10/259 (3.9%)

0

NA

10/259 (3.9%)

8.4%

2.1%

Quezada 2015

122e/2838 (4.2%)

110 (90.1%) with new

sampling

41/110 (37.3%)

53/2838 (1.9%)

4.1%

1.8%

Samango‐Sprouse 2013

15/201 (7.5%)

0

NA

15/201 (7.5%)

6.3%

7.6%

Verweij 2013

51/520 (9.8%)

51 (100%) with 2nd

aliquot

16/51 (31.4%)

16/520 (3.1%)

NR

NR

NR

Overall range of final assay failure for TMPS

0.8% to 7.5%

0% to 23%

1% to 7.63%

CVS: chorionic villi sampling, FF: fetal fraction DNA, GA: gestational age, NA: not applicable, NR: not reported by authors, QC: quality control.
aRepeated tests included second aliquot (aliquot from first sampling), resequenced (same library) or new sampling.

baneuploid: proportion of failed samples of aneuploid cases out of all aneuploid tested with reference standard and gNIPT result. euploid: proportion of failed samples of euploid cases out of all euploid tested with reference standard and gNIPT result.

cAuthors decided to resequence 12 samples with gNIPT results. They were in the grey zone (between affected and unaffected) and were resequenced in uniplex. All repeated tests were in affected or unaffected zone.

dOnly the final failure rate was reported.The failure rate at first attempt was not reported nor the failure rate of repeated tests.

eAuthor reported 123 failed tests but this number included one sample lost in the mail and so did not undergo the sequencing process.

Figuras y tablas -
Table 7. Proportion of pregnant women with a reference standard and assay failure during gNIPT process
Table 8. Data for 47,XXX, 47,XXY and 47,XYY according to the prior risk of fetal aneuploidy and gNIPT approach

Test

Number of

studies

Number of

affected pregnancies

Number of

unaffected pregnanciesa

47,XXX

Selected high risk

pregnant women

MPSS

5

8

5441

TMPS

2

6

580

47,XXY

Selected high risk

pregnant women

MPSS

7

14

6466

TMPS

3

8

827

47,XYY

Selected high risk

pregnant women

MPSS

7

11

6418

TMPS

1

3

169

aUnaffected pregnancies: we included pregnancies with any other aneuploidy than the one under analysis with all euploid cases as "unnon affected".

Figuras y tablas -
Table 8. Data for 47,XXX, 47,XXY and 47,XYY according to the prior risk of fetal aneuploidy and gNIPT approach
Table 9. Subgroup analyses of MPSS and TMPS (type of pregnancy and gestational age)

Test subgroups

Number of

studies

Number of

affected

pregnancies

Number of unaffected

pregnanciesa

Sensitivityb

% (95% CI)

Specificityb

% (95% CI)

Pregnancy type

Autosomes (T21, T18 and T13 combined), unselected population

MPSS

singleton

1

11

1730

100 (74.1 to 100)

99.9 (99.7 to 100)

TMPS

singleton

3

107

20,468

95.5 (87.4 to 98.4)

99.9 (99.8 to 100)

multifetal

1

11

181

90.9 (62.3 to 98.4)

100 (97.9 to 100)

Autosomes (T21, T18 and T13 combined), selected high‐risk population

MPSS

singleton

19

1087

11,180

98.3 (97.3 to 98.9)

99.6 (99.5 to 99.7)

multifetal

3

21

206

95.2 (72.9 to 99.3)

100 (98.2 to 100)c

TMPS

singleton

7

378

4282

98.9 (97.2 to 99.6)

99.9 (99.8 to 100)

SCA (45,X, 47,XXX, 47,XXY and 47,XYY combined), selected high‐risk population

MPSS

singleton

7

101

4690

88.3 (52.9 to 98.1)

99.3 (97.5 to 99.8)

TMPS

4

96

968

93.8 (86.8 to 97.2)

99.6 (98.1 to 99.9)

Gestational age

Autosomes (T21, T18 and T13 combined), unselected population

MPSS

≤29 weeks

1

11

1730

100 (74.1 to 100)

99.9 (99.7 to 100)

TMPS

≤15 weeks

4

118

20,649

94.9 (89.1 to 97.7)

99.9 (99.8 to 99.9)

Autosomes (T21, T18 and T13 combined), selected high‐risk population

MPSS

≤15 weeks

3

49

532

100 (92.7 to 100)c

100 (99.3 to 100)c

≤29 weeks

12

594

4605

98.3 (96.9 to 99.1)

99.3 (99.0 to 99.5)

≤42 weeks

13

729

7831

98.9 (95.0 to 99.8)

99.9 (99.8 to 99.9)

TMPS

≤15 weeks

2

128

498

99.2 (95.7 to 99.9)c

100 (99.2 to 100)c

≤29 weeks

2

33

535

97.0 (84.7 to 99.5)c

100 (99.3 to 100)c

≤42 weeks

2

163

3084

99.4 (95.8 to 99.9)

99.9 (99.7 to 100)

SCA (45,X, 47,XXX, 47,XXY and 47,XYY combined), selected high‐risk population

MPSS

≤15 weeks

1

2

202

0.00 (0.00 to 65.8)

99.5 (97.2 to 99.9)

≤29 weeks

5

58

996

86.5 (63.1 to 96.0)

95.1 (93.5 to 96.3)

≤42 weeks

5

89

6103

95.8 (80.3 to 99.2)

99.6 (99.4 to 99.7)

TMPS

≤15 weeks

2

58

343

93.1 (83.0 to 97.4)

99.7 (98.0 to 100)

≤42 weeks

1

34

380

97.1 (85.1 to 99.5)

98.9 (97.3 to 99.6)

45,X: Turner syndrome, 47,XXX: triple X syndrome, 47,XXY: Klinefelter syndrome, T21: trisomy 21, T18: trisomy 18, T13: trisomy 13 CI: confidence interval, MPSS: massively parallel shotgun sequencing, SCA: sex chromosome aneuploidies, TMPS: targeted massively parallel sequencing.

aWe included pregnancies with any other aneuploidy than the one under analysis with all euploid cases as "unaffected" pregnancies.

bFor two or more studies, the sensitivities and specificities are the summary estimates obtained from meta‐analysis.

cSimple pooling used to obtain summary estimates of sensitivity, specificity or both.

Figuras y tablas -
Table 9. Subgroup analyses of MPSS and TMPS (type of pregnancy and gestational age)
Table 10. Direct comparisons of gNIPT and traditional screening tests for autosomes (T21, T18 and T13 combined) in unselected population of pregnant women undergoing aneuploidy screening

Study

Sensitivity (true positives/cases)

%

Difference

% (95% CI)

Specificity (true negatives/unaffecteda)

%

Difference

% (95% CI)

MPSS

Traditional screening tests

MPSS

Traditional screening tests

Song 2013

100 (11/11)

54.6 (6/11)

45.5 (10.0 to 72.0)

99.9 (1729/1730)

86.0 (1487/1730)

14.0 (12.4 to 15.7)

TMPS

Traditional screening tests

TMPS

Traditional screening tests

Nicolaides 2012

100 (10/10)

100 (10/10)

0.00 (‐27.8 to 27.8)

99.9 (1937/1939)

95.5 (1852/1939)

4.38 (3.51 to 5.40)

Norton 2015

98.0 (49/50)

78.0 (39/50)

20.0 (7.44 to 33.3)

99.9 (15,779/15,791)

94.1 (14,860/15,791)

5.82 (5.46 to 6.20)

Quezada 2015

91.5 (43/47)

100 (49/49)

‐8.51 (‐19.9 to 0.40)

99.7 (2730/2738)

95.6 (2663/2787)

4.16 (3.40 to 5.00)

CI: confidence interval, MPSS: massively parallel shotgun sequencing, TMPS: targeted massively parallel sequencing.

aWe included pregnancies with any other aneuploidy than the one under analysis with all euploid cases as "unaffected" pregnancies.

Figuras y tablas -
Table 10. Direct comparisons of gNIPT and traditional screening tests for autosomes (T21, T18 and T13 combined) in unselected population of pregnant women undergoing aneuploidy screening
Table 11. Sensitivity analyses

Test

Number of

studies

Number of

affected

pregnancies

Number of unaffected

pregnanciesa

Summary sensitivity

% (95% CI)

Summary specificity

% (95% CI)

P valueb

Case‐control studies excluded

Autosomes (T21, T18 and T13 combined), selected high‐risk population

MPSS

22

696

11,293

98.3 (95.1 to 99.4)

99.9 (99.8 to 100)

0.72

TMPS

4

219

3,813

98.6 (95.8 to 99.6)

99.9 (99.8 to 100)

SCA (45,X, 47,XXX, 47,XXY and 47,XYY combined), selected high‐risk population

MPSS

10

98

5,872

91.9 (73.8 to 97.9)

99.5 (98.8 to 99.8)

0.41

TMPS

2

6

472

93.8 (86.8 to 97.2)

99.6 (98.1 to 99.9)

Exclusion of studies with less than 10 pregnancies with aneuploidy

Autosomes (T21, T18 and T13 combined), selected high‐risk population

MPSS

21

1458

13,921

98.7 (96.8 to 99.4)

99.8 (99.5 to 100)

0.07

TMPS

7

378

4,282

98.9 (97.2 to 99.6)

99.9 (99.8 to 100)

SCA (45,X, 47,XXX, 47,XXY and 47,XYY combined), selected high‐risk population

MPSS

6

130

5,761

94.5 (80.6 to 98.6)

99.4 (97.6 to 99.8)

0.28

TMPS

2

90

496

94.4 (87.3 to 97.7)

99.0 (97.6 to 99.6)

45,X: Turner syndrome, 47,XXX: triple X syndrome, 47,XXY: Klinefelter syndrome, T21: trisomy 21, T18: trisomy 18, T13: trisomy 13 CI: confidence interval, MPSS: massively parallel shotgun sequencing, SCA: sex chromosome aneuploidies, TMPS: targeted massively parallel sequencing.

aWe included pregnancies with any other aneuploidy than the one under analysis with all euploid cases as "unaffected" pregnancies.

bThe P value indicates the statistical significance of the difference in model fit and was obtained from likelihood ratio tests comparing models with and without a covariate for test type.

Figuras y tablas -
Table 11. Sensitivity analyses
Table Tests. Data tables by test

Test

No. of studies

No. of participants

1 MPSS T21 Show forest plot

41

50133

2 MPSS T18 Show forest plot

38

49003

3 MPSS T13 Show forest plot

29

46090

4 MPSS 45,X Show forest plot

14

7867

5 MPSS 47, XXX Show forest plot

5

5449

6 MPSS 47,XXY Show forest plot

8

6588

7 MPSS 47,XYY Show forest plot

8

6629

8 MPSS all 7 aneuploidies Show forest plot

44

50864

9 MPSS, autosomes Show forest plot

43

50453

10 MPSS, SCA Show forest plot

14

7911

11 TMPS T21 Show forest plot

16

32487

12 TMPS T18 Show forest plot

12

30319

13 TMPS T13 Show forest plot

10

22868

14 TMPS 45,X Show forest plot

6

2214

15 TMPS 47,XXX Show forest plot

2

586

16 TMPS 47,XXY Show forest plot

4

1021

17 TMPS 47,XYY Show forest plot

2

358

18 TMPS all 7 aneuploidies Show forest plot

21

35275

19 TMPS, autosomes Show forest plot

18

34473

20 TMPS, SCA Show forest plot

6

2214

21 Traditional screening tests, autosomes Show forest plot

5

24279

22 Traditional screening tests T21 Show forest plot

2

17753

23 Traditional screening tests T18 Show forest plot

2

17747

24 Traditional screening tests T13 Show forest plot

1

11185

Figuras y tablas -
Table Tests. Data tables by test