J Genet Med.  2015 Dec;12(2):79-84. 10.5734/JGM.2015.12.2.79.

Validation of fetus aneuploidy in 221 Korean clinical samples using noninvasive chromosome examination: Clinical laboratory improvement amendments-certified noninvasive prenatal test

• Kim MJ
• Kwon CH
• Kim DI
• Im HS
• Park S
• Kim JH
• Bae JS
• Lee M
• Lee MS

• KMID: 2149849
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.5734/JGM.2015.12.2.79

Abstract

PURPOSE
We developed and validated a fetal trisomy detection method for use as a noninvasive prenatal test (NIPT) including a Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments (CLIA)-certified bioinformatics pipeline on a cloud-based computing system using both Illumina and Life Technology sequencing platforms for 221 Korean clinical samples. We determined the necessary proportions of the fetal fraction in the cell-free DNA (cfDNA) sample for NIPT of trisomies 13, 18, and 21 through a limit of quantification (LOQ) test.
MATERIALS AND METHODS
Next-generation sequencing libraries from 221 clinical samples and three positive controls were generated using Illumina and Life Technology chemistries. Sequencing results were uploaded to a cloud and mapped on the human reference genome (GRCh37/hg19) using bioinformatics tools. Based on Z-scores calculated by normalization of the mapped read counts, final aneuploidy reports were automatically generated for fetal aneuploidy determination.
RESULTS
We identified in total 29 aneuploid samples, and additional analytical methods performed to confirm the results showed that one of these was a false-positive. The LOQ test showed that the proportion of fetal fraction in the cfDNA sample would affect the interpretation of the aneuploidy results.
CONCLUSION
Noninvasive chromosome examination (NICE), a CLIA-certified NIPT with a cloud-based bioinformatics platform, showed unambiguous success in fetus aneuploidy detection.

Keyword

Prenatal diagnosis; High-throughput nucleotide sequencing; Computational biology; Cell-free DNA; Trisomy; Aneuploidy

MeSH Terms

Aneuploidy*
Computational Biology
DNA
Fetus*
Genome
High-Throughput Nucleotide Sequencing
Humans
Prenatal Diagnosis
Trisomy
DNA