Comparison of Bioinformatics Approaches for Fetal Microdeletions and Monogenic Variations Estimation in Non-invasive Prenatal Testing

Abstract

Prenatal testing provides crucial information about the health status of fetuses as well as recommending better treatment. For the past decades, prenatal testing using chorionic villus sampling and amniocentesis were the two majorly used forms of invasive prenatal diagnostic approaches. However, to facilitate prenatal testing without causing any danger to the fetus, the noninvasive prenatal diagnostic method, which uses circulating cell-free deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), has become a suitable method of prenatal diagnosis. This review discusses the recent bioinformatics approaches used for analyzing fetal DNA concentration.