Study to Use NIPT to Examine All Chromosomes in Unborn Babies for Abnormalities
- Posted on January 30, 2026
- By The Japan News
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Study to Use NIPT to Examine All Chromosomes in Unborn Babies for Abnormalities

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.