Cordlife NIPT

Cordlife NIPT gives you an accurate insight into your pregnancy

From a simple blood draw as early as 10 weeks into your pregnancy, Cordlife NIPT screens for the most common chromosomal abnormalities that can affect your developing baby’s future. This test is done with little or no risk to your pregnancy.

  • A simple blood test to screen for chromosomal abnormalities of the developing baby. Carries little or no risk to your pregnancy.
  • Can be performed as early as on the 10th week of pregnancy. Twin pregnancy can be tested.
  • Employs Whole Genome Sequencing method for comprehensive coverage of all chromosomes.
  • More than 99% accuracy rate
  • Option to know your baby’s fetal sex
  • Tested by an internationally certified laboratory in South Korea.
  • 3 panels available to detect up to 142 conditions. Option to know your baby’s gender.
  • Up to US$300 confirmatory testing subsidy for patients detected with high-risk of chromosomal abnormalities.

Conventional Prenatal Tests vs Cordlife NIPT

Conventional maternal marker-based prenatal tests such as triple tests, quad tests and integrated tests carry a high false positive rate of 5% or more. This means that of those who were diagnosed as high-risk through these tests, only 2 to 3 percent of them actually have Down syndrome. The rest of the group are perfectly normal but were misdiagnosed as part of the high risk group.

More accurate test reduce need for unnecessary invasive prenatal test

As high risk group patients are usually required to go through risky invasive test such as amniotic fluid test for confirmation, which exposes them to the risk of side effects including miscarriage, choosing a more reliable and accurate test will spare expectant mothers from unnecessary agony and anxiety. The table below compares the various prenatal tests available in the market today.

Cordlife NIPT CONVENTIONAL SERUM TESTS CONFIRMATORY TESTS
Detection Rate (T21) >99% 80% – 95% 99.99%
False Positive Rate (T21) 1.49% 3-5% less than 1%
Possible risk No (non-invasive) No (non-invasive) Yes (invasive)
Specimen 10ml of blood 5ml of blood Amniotic fluid or chorionic cells
Test period As early as 10 weeks 10- 22 weeks 10 – 20 weeks
Test method Next generation sequencing Serum biochemical markers Cultivation using amniotic fluid or chorionic cells
Turnaround time 7-10 working days 4 – 5 weeks 2 – 3 weeks

Source

  1. Practice Bulletin No. 163: Screening for Fetal Aneuploidy; American college of Obstetrics & Gynaecologists. 127(5):e123–e137, May 2016.
  2. Kim MJ, Chang HK, Kim DI, Hee SU, Park S, Kim JH, Bae JS, Lee MH, Lee MS. Validation of fetus aneuploidy in 221 Korean clinical samples using non-invasive chromosome examination; J Genet Med 2015;12(2):79-84, May 2015.
  3. Non-Invasive Prenatal Testing (NIPT) Factsheet; National Coalition for Health Professional education in Genetics, 21 November 2012.

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