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Study to Use NIPT to Examine All Chromosomes in Unborn Babies for Abnormalities

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The Yomiuri Shimbun

15:03 JST, January 30, 2026

Eleven medical facilities across the nation will soon start a clinical study that will examine all chromosomes of a fetus, in a move that could have implications for Japan’s current prenatal testing system that checks only three chromosomes for abnormalities.

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