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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We did the NIPT and they got the gender wrong. Caused a lot of angst and I will never do it again. Geneticist at Myriad said 1/100 are wrong, which is pretty high and unreliable, especially if paying out of pocket. [/quote]

Yes that's what 99% means. And no that's not pretty high. Just like birth control, it's not perfect. It's very rare that any test is 100%.[/quote]

If you read literally any thread around here, people comment over and over again the tests just *cant* be wrong. I’m telling anyone who is reading this that *yes* they can and often are. 1 out of every 100 tests they do being completely wrong is incredibly high considering how many they do, and especially for a test that’s supposed to bring you peace of mind. [/quote]

You do realize how much better current NIPS is than what’s been around in the past like quad screening or the first trimester screen at catching this stuff right? Also, the fetal sex is not the point of the testing. For chromosome abnormalities, the sensitivity is very high. Like 99.7% for Down syndrome. That doesn’t mean 1/100 tests are wrong. That’s more of less true of the fetal sex (again, not the point of the testing). So only about .3% of pregnancies with Down syndrome are kissed and only about that many are a false positive. And again a false positive isn’t saying the baby has Down syndrome. It’s saying that there’s a high chance and you should do diagnostic testing if you went to know. I guess you shouldn’t ever have a mammogram or colonoscopy. Those have way worse sensitivity and specificity statistics. [/quote]

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