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During the first year of the TRIDENT-2 study, 74,000 women opted for NIPT, which was switched from in-house-developed platforms to Illumina's VeriSeq in May of this year.

By early 2020, the UK company plans to develop a version of its Iona test that uses Illumina's sequencing technology.

The report states that using NIPD for trisomy 21 in high-risk women could "probably reduce" the total number of invasive tests though the data is incomplete.

The suit alleges that Natera's Panorama test infringes US Patent No. 9,493,831 patent, which covers sequencing library preparation methods applied to maternal blood samples.

The company is now seeking commercial partners in Brazil to make the Iona test available in the country.

The China Food and Drug Administration had also previously accredited both the NIFTY test and the BGISEQ sequencing platform.

In a study involving almost 23,000 women, DNA reflex testing detect 95 percent of trisomies while avoiding recalls.