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. 2010 Mar;17(1):13–18. doi: 10.1258/jms.2010.009108

Table 1.

Screening performance of NT alone (measured between 11 and 13 weeks gestation), based on 104 Down's syndrome and 22,284 unaffected pregnancies according to method

DR (%) for FPR of
FPR (%) for DR of
Method 1% 3% 5% 10% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90%
Mixture model method1 41 57 62 68 1.9 4.3 12 28 43
Standard MoM method* 42 56 63 68 1.7 4.1 10 20 41

NT, nuchal translucency; DR, detection rate; FPR, false-positive rate; MoM, multiple of the median

*Derived from the mixture model distributions1