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. 2017 Nov 10;2017(11):CD011767. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD011767.pub2

11. Sensitivity analyses.

Test Number of
studies
Number of
affected
pregnancies
Number of unaffected
pregnanciesa
Summary sensitivity
% (95% CI)
Summary specificity
% (95% CI)
P valueb
Case‐control studies excluded
Autosomes (T21, T18 and T13 combined), selected high‐risk population
MPSS 22 696 11,293 98.3 (95.1 to 99.4) 99.9 (99.8 to 100) 0.72
TMPS 4 219 3,813 98.6 (95.8 to 99.6) 99.9 (99.8 to 100)
SCA (45,X, 47,XXX, 47,XXY and 47,XYY combined), selected high‐risk population
MPSS 10 98 5,872 91.9 (73.8 to 97.9) 99.5 (98.8 to 99.8) 0.41
TMPS 2 6 472 93.8 (86.8 to 97.2) 99.6 (98.1 to 99.9)
Exclusion of studies with less than 10 pregnancies with aneuploidy
Autosomes (T21, T18 and T13 combined), selected high‐risk population
MPSS 21 1458 13,921 98.7 (96.8 to 99.4) 99.8 (99.5 to 100) 0.07
TMPS 7 378 4,282 98.9 (97.2 to 99.6) 99.9 (99.8 to 100)
SCA (45,X, 47,XXX, 47,XXY and 47,XYY combined), selected high‐risk population
MPSS 6 130 5,761 94.5 (80.6 to 98.6) 99.4 (97.6 to 99.8) 0.28
TMPS 2 90 496 94.4 (87.3 to 97.7) 99.0 (97.6 to 99.6)

45,X: Turner syndrome, 47,XXX: triple X syndrome, 47,XXY: Klinefelter syndrome, T21: trisomy 21, T18: trisomy 18, T13: trisomy 13 CI: confidence interval, MPSS: massively parallel shotgun sequencing, SCA: sex chromosome aneuploidies, TMPS: targeted massively parallel sequencing.

aWe included pregnancies with any other aneuploidy than the one under analysis with all euploid cases as "unaffected" pregnancies.

bThe P value indicates the statistical significance of the difference in model fit and was obtained from likelihood ratio tests comparing models with and without a covariate for test type.