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Table 1 Summary of fetal chromosomal abnormalities identified by NIPS among the 6632 pregnant women

From: Identification of copy number variations among fetuses with isolated ultrasound soft markers in pregnant women not of advanced maternal age

Fetal aneuploidies

High risk of NIPS (n)

Screen positive rate (%)

TP (n)

FP (n)

FPR (%)

PPV (%, 95% CI)

Remarks

Trisomy

14

0.21a

8c

6

0.09

57.14 (29.65–81.19)

 

T21

6

0.09

4

2

0.03

66.67 (24.11–94.00)

 

T18

5

0.08

4

1

0.02

80.00 (29.88–98.95)

 

T13

3

0.05

0

3

0.05

Confirmed 1 P CNVse

SCA

23

0.35b

7d

16

0.24

30.43 (14.06–53.01)

 

45,X

12

0.18

2

10

0.15

16.67 (2.94–49.12)

 

47,XXX

5

0.08

0

5

0.08

 

47,XYY

3

0.05

3

0

0.00

100.00 (31.00–100.00)

 

47,XXY

3

0.05

2

1

0.02

66.67 (12.53–98.23)

 

CNVs

59

0.89

21

38

0.57

35.59 (23.87–49.20)

Confirmed 5 P CNVsf

  1. NIPS noninvasive prenatal screening, T21 trisomy 21, T18 trisomy 18, T13 trisomy 13, SCA sex chromosome aneuploidy, CNVvs copy number variants, P pathogenic, TP true positive, FP false positive, FPR false positive rate, FN false negative, PPV positive predictive value
  2. aScreen positive rate: high-risk trisomy cases vs. high-risk CNVs cases, p < 0.001
  3. bScreen positive rate: high-risk SCA cases vs. high-risk CNVs cases, p < 0.001
  4. cTrue positive rate: true positive trisomy vs. true positive CNVs, p = 0.016
  5. dTrue positive rate: true positive SCA vs. true positive CNVs, p = 0.008
  6. eConfirmed one P CNV: non-concordant with positive NIPS (delXp21.1 (0.32 Mb))
  7. fConfirmed five P CNVs: two non-concordant with positive NIPS (del15q11.2 (0.36 Mb) and del16p11.2 (0.60Mb)), two concordant with positive NIPS (positive), and one with negative NIPS (false negative, del2q37.3 (4.29 Mb))