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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Dec 17.
Published in final edited form as: Pediatrics. 2008 Dec;122(6):1310–1318. doi: 10.1542/peds.2008-0297

TABLE 1. Clinical Indications at the Time of Referral and Detection Rates for Clinically Significant CNV.

Clinical Indications at the Time
  of the Referrala
Cases
(N = 638),
n
Clinically
Significant
CNVs (N = 109),
n
Overall
Detection
Rate
(17.1%), %
Possible chromosomal
  abnormalities ± othersb
21 14 66.7
Ambiguous genitalia ± others 12 4 33.3
 Ambiguous genitalia alone 7 3 42.9
 Ambiguous genitalia ± others 5 1 20.0
MCA ± others 179 32 17.9
 MCA + CHD 7 2 28.6
 MCA + DFs ± others 59 16 27.1
 MCA alone 97 14 14.4
 MCA + others (excluding CHD
  or DFs)
16 0 0.0
DFs ± others (excluding MCA) 138 34 24.6
 DFs alone 81 19 23.5
 DFs + others 57 15 26.3
CHD ± others 101 22 21.8
Others also including following
  subgroups
295 28 9.5
 Respiratory distress disorder 9 2 22.2
 Possible syndrome 24 5 20.8
 Heterotaxy 6 1 16.7
 Failure to thrive,
  gastrointestinal or renal
  anomalies
44 6 13.6
 Neuromuscular 85 9 10.6
 Intrauterine growth
  retardation or premature
21 2 9.5
 Hydrops 13 1 7.7
 Cleft lip/palate 21 1 4.8
 No indications 24 1 4.2
 Seizure disorder 19 0 0.0
 Congenital diaphragmatic
  hernia
11 0 0.0
 Skeletal 13 0 0.0
 Family history of chromosomal
  abnormality or DFs
5 0 0.0
a

Patients who had ≥2 clinical indications were included in ≥2 groups in this table.

b

Broad spectrum of birth defects.