Adaptive parameter of standard deviation enhances the power of noninvasive prenatal screens
Li Qu, Qixi Wu, Xiaoke Yang, Weiwei Wang, Bing Xu, Guangyu Shan, Lin Liang, Shaowei Wang & Jingbo Zhang
Traditional Z-test methods during noninvasive prenatal screens (NIPS) use the fixed parameter of standard deviation (SD), which ignores the influence of actual sequencing read counts of a sample on the results. The aim of this study is to eliminate the influence of the sequencing depth of individual samples on the results and enhance the power of NIPS. In this study, we propose an improved NIPS method, which calculates the SD in the Z-score process adaptively...
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Henan University1
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Xiamen University1
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Sichuan University1
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Lanzhou Institute of Husbandry and Pharmaceutical Sciences1
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University of Vermont1
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Hohai University1
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Hangzhou Women’s Hospital1
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Shanghai Jiao Tong University1
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Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College1
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Chinese Academy of Sciences1