ASHG: Dutch Nationwide NIPT Implementation Study Sees 42 Percent Uptake After First Year

Oct 22, 2018

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NEW YORK (GenomeWeb) – One year after the Netherlands made noninvasive prenatal aneuploidy screening available to all pregnant women as part of a nationwide implementation study, the uptake of the test has been 42 percent, according to a presentation at the American Society of Human Genetics annual meeting in San Diego last week.

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