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Abstract Objective The balance between benefits and risks of discordant outcomes makes the Genome‐Wide Non‐Invasive Prenatal Test (GW‐NIPT) controversial. This study aims to evaluate performance and clinical utility in a wide cohort of unselected clinical cases from a single center when a standardized protocol is applied and integrated with a secondary algorithm for data interpretation. Method In 2 years, over 70,000 pregnant patients underwent GW‐NIPT for fetal common trisomies, sex chromosome aneuploidies, rare autosomal aneuploidies, segmental abnormalities (CNVs ≥ 7 Mb) and microdeletions (CNVs < 7 Mb). All samples were uniformly processed with Veriseq NIPT Solution v2 and analyzed using all data metrics along with a home‐made algorithm for sequencing data analysis. Results were retrospectively reviewed for clinical outcomes. Results Among 71,883 eligible cases including twin pregnancies, 1011 (1.4%) received a positive result and 781 were confirmed by invasive prenatal diagnosis. Clinical sensitivity ranged from 99.65% for common trisomy (T21, T18, T13) to 83.33% for microdeletions, while specificity remained high (99.98%) for each class of fetal abnormalities detected. Conclusions Integrating a standardized protocol with an internal algorithm allowed discordant results to be reduced, yielding high accuracy. Observed reliability in detecting genome‐wide chromosomal conditions reinforced the expanded NIPT utility in clinical practice.
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