EVALUATING THE VALUE OF PRENATAL BOBS IN PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS CHROMOSOMAL ABNORMALITY IN HANOI OBSTETRICS AND GYNECOLOGY HOSPITAL

Thuý Linh Đinh, Hải Yến Hoàng, Thế Vương Phạm, Duy Ánh Nguyễn

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Among chromosome abnormality prenatal diagnosis tests, karyotyping is still the golden standard, however recent development of other bio-molecular techniques also provided the possibility to early diagnose and detect syndromes such as Down, Patau, Edwards, or defects in sex-determination chromosome after 24-48 hours. Particularly, Prenatal BoBs technique can diagnose 9 popular chromosomal micro-deletion syndromes causing serious symptoms among children, which other techniques still have limited detecting capability. Objective: Evaluate the result of Prenatal BoBs technique in prenatal diagnosis of several chromosomal abnormalities. Subject - Methodology: Prenatal BoBs testing was applied to 2578 amniocentesis samples of 16-27 week of gestation with high risk of chromosomal abnormality in Hanoi Obstetrics and Gynecology Hospital from 05/2016 – 12/2022. Aside from Prenatal BoBs technique, karyotyping was also applied. Result: Prenatal BoBs was able to identify 273 cases (10.6%) of chromosomal abnormality, among which 234 cases (9.1%) of aneuploidy and 39 cases (1.5%) of chromosomal micro-deletion/duplication syndromes. 234 cases of aneuploidy include 129 cases of trisomy 21, 33 cases of trisomy 18, 15 cases of trisomy 13, 56 cases of sex aneuploidy, 1 case ambiguous. 39 cases of chromosomal micro-deletion/duplication syndromes include 21 cases of 22q11.2 deletion, 3 cases of 5p15 deletion, 1 case of 4p16.3 deletion, 1 case of 15q11-12 deletion, 1 case of 17p11.2 deletion, 7 cases of 22q11.2 duplication and 5 cases of others duplication. PPV of Prenatal BOBs is 100% in diagnose T13, T18, T21, sex aneuploidy and 9 popular chromosomal micro-deletion syndromes, but it can be limited to chromosomal mosaicism.  Prenatal BOBs provided improved detection of 1.5% micro-deletion/duplication syndromes, as compared with karyotype analysis. Conclusion: Prenatal BoBs is a genetic test capable of providing highly accurate results in a rather short time (48h), which able to early diagnose abnormality of chromosome 13, 18, 21, 23 and 9 popular chromosomal micro-deletion syndromes, especially DiGeorge syndrome

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