Placental, maternal, fetal, and technical origins of false-positive cell-free DNA screening results

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The introduction of noninvasive prenatal testing has resulted in substantial reductions to previously accepted false-positive rates of prenatal screening. Despite this, the possibility of false-positive results remains a challenging consideration in clinical practice, particularly considering the increasing uptake of genome-wide noninvasive prenatal testing, and the subsequent increased proportion of high-risk results attributable to various biological events besides fetal aneuploidy. Confined placental mosaicism, whereby chromosome anomalies exclusively affect the placenta, is perhaps the most widely accepted cause of false-positive noninvasive prenatal testing. There remains, however, a substantial degree of ambiguity in the literature pertaining to the clinical ramifications of confined placental mosaicism and its potential association with placental insufficiency, and consequentially adverse pregnancy outcomes including fetal growth restriction. Other causes of false-positive noninvasive prenatal testing include vanishing twin syndrome, in which the cell-free DNA from a demised aneuploidy-affected twin triggers a high-risk result, technical failures, and maternal origins of abnormal cell-free DNA such as uterine fibroids or unrecognized mosaicisms. Most concerningly, maternal malignancies are also a documented cause of false-positive screening results. In this review, we compile what is currently known about the various causes of false-positive noninvasive prenatal testing.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

Erschienen:

2024

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:230

Enthalten in:

American journal of obstetrics and gynecology - 230(2024), 4 vom: 04. Apr., Seite 381-389

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Raymond, Yvette [VerfasserIn]
Fernando, Shavi [VerfasserIn]
Menezes, Melody [VerfasserIn]
Mol, Ben W [VerfasserIn]
McLennan, Andrew [VerfasserIn]
da Silva Costa, Fabricio [VerfasserIn]
Hardy, Tristan [VerfasserIn]
Rolnik, Daniel L [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Cancer in pregnancy
Cell-Free Nucleic Acids
Cell-free DNA screening
Confined placental mosaicism
Genome-wide screening
Journal Article
Maternal malignancy
Noninvasive prenatal testing
Placental insufficiency
Prenatal screening
Rare autosomal trisomy
Review
Segmental copy number variation
Uterine fibroids
Vanishing twin syndrome

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Date Completed 05.04.2024

Date Revised 05.04.2024

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.ajog.2023.11.1240

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NLM36499360X