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In recent years, examination of cell-free DNA (cfDNA) circulating in maternal plasma has become a useful noninvasive method of prenatal diagnosis. However, fetal DNA constitutes only 3\u201320% of plasma cfDNA during pregnancy. Short tandem repeats (STRs) are routinely used in forensic examination of DNA mixtures and are able to identify 5% minority components. Haplotypes of deletion\/insertion polymorphisms and STRs (DIP\u2013STRs) are able to detect even 0.1% minority components of DNA mixtures. Thus, STRs and DIP\u2013STRs seem to be a perfect tool for detection of fetal alleles in DNA isolated from maternal plasma. Here, we present a novel noninvasive prenatal diagnosis technique of determination of pregnancy zygosity based on examination of feto-maternal microchimerism of plasma cfDNA with the use of STRs and DIP\u2013STRs. Our preliminary results based on 22 STR loci showed 67% sensitivity, 100% specificity and 82% accuracy for prenatal detection of twin dizygosity. The corresponding values for seven DIP\u2013STRs were 13%, 100% and 54%, respectively. Owing to assay performance, low DNA input requirements, low costs (below 10 USD per patient) and simplicity of analysis, genotyping of STR\/DIP\u2013STR markers in maternal plasma cfDNA may become a useful supplementary test for noninvasive prenatal diagnosis of twin zygosity in cases when chorionicity and zygosity cannot be reliably determined by ultrasound examination and prognostic value may be provided by a DNA test determining pregnancy zygosity.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1017\/thg.2019.89","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2019,10,17]],"date-time":"2019-10-17T03:35:35Z","timestamp":1571283335000},"page":"321-329","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":9,"title":["Genotyping of STR and DIP\u2013STR Markers in Plasma Cell-Free DNA for Simple and Rapid Noninvasive Prenatal Diagnosis of Zygosity of Twin 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