Nigeria’s renown IVF specialist and the MD of Nordica Fertility Centre,Lagos, Dr Abayomi Ajayi in this interview with RALIAT AHMED- YUSUF sheds more light on NIFTY,a pre-natal testing that can detect chromosomal abnormalities in pregnancy and even some genetic cancers.
What is NIFTY ?
NIFTY is a form of non invasive pre-natal testing.It is non invasive in the sense that you just need the woman’s blood to be able to detect the DNA of the baby.This was first done in 2010 in the University of Hong Kong and since then it has sort of transformed the way we do prenatal testing.It has not completely eliminated invasive prenatal testing but it has reduced its use to ten percent.
