Noninvasive Prenatal Testing (Nipt): Applied Genomics in Prenatal Screening and Prenatal Diagnosis

Non-Invasive Prenatal Testing (NIPT): Applied Genomics in Prenatal Screening and Prenatal Diagnosis presents the first authoritative volume on NIPT foundations, methods and clinical implementation. Eighteen chapter contributions from leading international experts in NIPT provide a thorough, practical examination of the history of NIPT, NIPT laboratory techniques and bioinformatics, NIPT screening and diagnostics for a wide range of disorders and birth defects, optimal approaches for integrating NIPT into clinical practice, quality assurance and standardization of NIPT, clinical decision support and patient counseling, secondary findings, and next steps in NIPT research.

With full color imagery to enhance concept illustration and detailed descriptions of the benefits (and limitations) of NIPT, this book offers clinicians, researchers, genetic counselors and reproductive specialists of all kinds the background information, methodology and patient counseling aspects essential for using NIPT both successfully and ethically in daily practice.