IONA® Care is a non-invasive prenatal screening test for pregnant women offering an extended test menu.
In addition to screening for Down’s, Edwards’ and Patau’s syndrome (trisomy 21, 18 and 13), IONA® Care screens for sex chromosomal aneuploidies (SCA) and autosomal aneuploidies (AA), offering a menu-based approach where pregnant women and their healthcare providers can select whether they would like to screen for SCA, AA or both.
The extended screening menu offered by IONA® Care (SCA and AA) is only available for singleton and monochorionic twin pregnancies.
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Comprehensive Menu
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| Trisomy 21 (Down’s syndrome) | |||
| Trisomy 18 (Edwards’ syndrome) | |||
| Trisomy 13 (Patau’s syndrome) | |||
| Fetal sex determination* | |||
| XO (Turner syndrome)* | |||
| XXX (Trisomy X)* | |||
| XXY (Klinefelter syndrome)* | |||
| XYY (Jacobs syndrome)* | |||
| All other autosomal aneuploidies* | |||
| DiGeorge syndrome* | |||
| Other clinically relevant microdeletions* |
* for singleton and monochorionic twin pregnancies only
A private Provider’s view on NIPT
Non-invasive prenatal screening (NIPT) is available in the form of the IONA® test and IONA® Care from Yourgene Health’s Genomic Services laboratory in Manchester, UK. The test requires a maternal blood sample from the 10th week of gestation and uses next generation sequencing to determine the likelihood that the pregnancy is affected by trisomy 21, 18 or 13.
NIPT Screening Ticking all the boxes
Future Health is the UK’s largest Stem Cell Bank with over 20 years of history and experience. They have 2 storage facilities, one in the UK and one in Switzerland and a physical presence in over 40 countries worldwide. Future Health do not just offer stem cell banking, their services include screening, both NIPT and newborn screening. Yourgene Genomic Services and Future Health have partnered to initially offer NIPT testing services – the IONA® test and IONA® Care, marketed as Vision and Vision Total to the Future Health network.
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