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The utilization of metabolomics to analyze specific metabolic markers in maternal amniotic fluid may provide innovative tools and screening methods for investigating the early pathophysiology of trisomy 21 at the functional level.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title><jats:p>Amniotic fluid samples were obtained via amniocentesis from 57 pregnancies with DS and 55 control pregnancies between 17<jats:sup>3\/7<\/jats:sup> and 24<jats:sup>0\/7<\/jats:sup>\u00a0weeks of gestation. The targeted metabolomics focused on 34 organic acids, 17 amino acids, and 5 acylcarnitine metabolites. The untargeted metabolomics analysis concentrated on lipid profiles and included 602 metabolites that met quality control standards. Principal Component Analysis, Orthogonal Partial Least Squares Discriminant Analysis (OPLS\u2010DA), and false discovery rate (FDR) adjustments were applied. MetaboAnalystR 5.0 was used to perform the metabolic pathway analysis on the identified differential metabolites.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Results<\/jats:title><jats:p>Fifty differential metabolites, including L\u2010glutamine, eight organic acids, and 41 lipids, were significantly altered in DS based on three criteria: VIP &gt; 1 in the OPLS\u2010DA model, FDR\u2010adjusted <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\u2010value &lt; 0.05, and |log<jats:sub>2<\/jats:sub>FC|\u00a0&gt;\u00a0log<jats:sub>2<\/jats:sub>(1.5) from a volcano plot of all detected metabolites. An analysis of 212 differential metabolites, selected from both targeted and untargeted approaches (VIP &gt; 1 in the OPLS\u2010DA model and FDR\u2010adjusted <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\u2010value &lt; 0.05), revealed significant changes in nine metabolic pathways. 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