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Maternal cell-free DNA-based screening for fetal microdeletion and the importance of careful diagnostic follow-up.


ABSTRACT: Noninvasive prenatal screening (NIPS) by next-generation sequencing of cell-free DNA (cfDNA) in maternal plasma is used to screen for common aneuploidies such as trisomy 21 in high risk pregnancies. NIPS can identify fetal genomic microdeletions; however, sensitivity and specificity have not been systematically evaluated. Commercial companies have begun to offer expanded panels including screening for common microdeletion syndromes such as 22q11.2 deletion (DiGeorge syndrome) without reporting the genomic coordinates or whether the deletion is maternal or fetal. Here we describe a phenotypically normal mother and fetus who tested positive for atypical 22q deletion via maternal plasma cfDNA testing.We performed cfDNA sequencing on saved maternal plasma obtained at 11 weeks of gestation from a phenotypically normal woman with a singleton pregnancy whose earlier screening at a commercial laboratory was reported to be positive for a 22q11.2 microdeletion. Fluorescence in situ hybridization and chromosomal microarray diagnostic genetic tests were done postnatally.NIPS detected a 22q microdeletion that, upon diagnostic workup, did not include the DiGeorge critical region. Diagnostic prenatal or postnatal testing with chromosomal microarray and appropriate parental studies to determine precise genomic coordinates and inheritance should follow a positive microdeletion NIPS result.

SUBMITTER: Yatsenko SA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4496325 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Maternal cell-free DNA-based screening for fetal microdeletion and the importance of careful diagnostic follow-up.

Yatsenko Svetlana A SA   Peters David G DG   Saller Devereux N DN   Chu Tianjiao T   Clemens Michelle M   Rajkovic Aleksandar A  

Genetics in medicine : official journal of the American College of Medical Genetics 20150108 10


<h4>Background</h4>Noninvasive prenatal screening (NIPS) by next-generation sequencing of cell-free DNA (cfDNA) in maternal plasma is used to screen for common aneuploidies such as trisomy 21 in high risk pregnancies. NIPS can identify fetal genomic microdeletions; however, sensitivity and specificity have not been systematically evaluated. Commercial companies have begun to offer expanded panels including screening for common microdeletion syndromes such as 22q11.2 deletion (DiGeorge syndrome)  ...[more]

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