About the Authors

Sara Perlado

Affiliation Department of Genetics, IIS-Fundación Jiménez Díaz UAM, CIBERER, Madrid, Spain

Ana Bustamante-Aragonés

abustamante@fjd.es

Affiliation Department of Genetics, IIS-Fundación Jiménez Díaz UAM, CIBERER, Madrid, Spain

Marta Donas

Affiliation Department of Genetics, IIS-Fundación Jiménez Díaz UAM, CIBERER, Madrid, Spain

Isabel Lorda-Sánchez

Affiliation Department of Genetics, IIS-Fundación Jiménez Díaz UAM, CIBERER, Madrid, Spain

Javier Plaza

Affiliation Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, Fundación Jiménez Díaz-IIS, Madrid, Spain

Marta Rodríguez de Alba

Affiliation Department of Genetics, IIS-Fundación Jiménez Díaz UAM, CIBERER, Madrid, Spain

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SP AB. Performed the experiments: SP MD. Analyzed the data: SP AB MD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JP IL MRA. Wrote the paper: SP AB MRA. Study design for NIPD: SP AB MD. Data analysis and interpretation: SP MD. Drafting manuscript: SP. Study design for conventional prenatal diagnosis (PD): AB. Revision of manuscript: AB MRA. Principal Investigator of research project 12114/14: AB. Genetic counselling pre- and post- NIPD & PD tests: IL. Obstetrician involved in the research project PI11/01014 and 12114/1: JP. Approval of final version of manuscript: MRA. Principal Investigator of research project PI11/01014: MRA.