In Tufts Study, 10 Cancer Cases Found Among 125K Illumina NIPT Customers

Jul 14, 2015

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NEW YORK (GenomeWeb) – Researches from Tufts Medical Center and other institutions working with Illumina have published a new study in which they identified a total of 10 cases of maternal cancer in women who received a discordant or false-positive result after Illumina's non-invasive prenatal testing.

The data, which appeared yesterday in JAMA, represent a retrospective analysis of over 125,000 samples tested by Illumina between February 2012 and September 2014.

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