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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 05, 2022
Filed:
Mar. 16, 2020
Verinata Health, Inc., Redwood City, CA (US);
The General Hospital Corporation, Boston, MA (US);
Gpb Scientific, Llc, Richmond, VA (US);
Roland Stoughton, The Sea Ranch, CA (US);
Ravi Kapur, Sharon, MA (US);
Barb Ariel Cohen, Watertown, MA (US);
Daniel Shoemaker, San Diego, CA (US);
Ronald W. Davis, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Mehmet Toner, Charlestown, MA (US);
Verinata Health, Inc., Redwood City, CA (US);
The General Hospital Corporation, Boston, MA (US);
GPR Scientific, LLC, Richmond, VA (US);
Abstract
The present invention provides systems, apparatuses, and methods to detect the presence of fetal cells when mixed with a population of maternal cells in a sample and to test fetal abnormalities, i.e. aneuploidy. In addition, the present invention provides methods to determine when there are insufficient fetal cells for a determination and report a non-informative case. The present invention involves quantifying regions of genomic DNA from a mixed sample. More particularly the invention involves quantifying DNA polymorphisms from the mixed sample.