Autosomal Aneuploidy Clinical Trial
Official title:
Feasibility Study of a New Screening Program for Major Aneuploidies (T21, T18, T13) in the Emilia-Romagna Region (SAPERER)
The study is promoted by the Emilia Romagna Region which identified in the Bologna AUSL the
coordinating center (Unità Operativa Complessa Laboratorio Unico Metropolitano, LUM, Maggiore
Hospital). The medical genetics centers, participating in the technical-scientific
coordination group of assessment (resolution No. 1894, 4/11/2019), the family counseling
centers and the region prenatal hospital clinics are involved as collaborative experimental
centers.
Currently, 14,400 combined tests are carried out in the Emilia Romagna Region every year.
As a result offering the new non-invasive NIPT test, it is estimated that the number of
participants in the screening program will increase by up to 20,000/year.
The study will collect data on the women who will access the combined test in the first 9
months of the protocol and join the enrollment.
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