NIPT – current landscape and future potential
1h 2m
Join Associate Professor Andrew McLennan for a dive into the rapidly evolving world of prenatal screening for chromosomal and genetic conditions.
This webinar will cover:
- Brief historical perspective of antenatal aneuploidy screening over the past 50 years
- Non-invasive prenatal testing (NIPT)
- How it works and what it tests for.
- Accuracy and false results
- Current status of testing in Australia
- What now for the first trimester ultrasound?
- Future potential of NIPT
- Reproductive genetic screening overview
Learning outcomes:
- Understand the molecular basis of NIPT screening
- Understand why some false results occur
- Understand how NIPT fits into the current screening landscape
- Understand the principles of reproductive genetic screening