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The study retrospectively assessed the patients' clinical features, observations, and pregnancy outcomes.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Out of the 469 cases meeting the inclusion criteria, conventional karyotyping identified chromosomal aneuploidies in 17 cases (3.62%). CMA identified pathogenic or likely pathogenic findings, including both aneuploidies and copy number variants, in 35 cases, yielding a detection rate of 7.46% (95% CI: 5.24%\u201310.21%). The incremental yield of CMA over karyotyping was 3.84%. WES was performed on 59 CMA-negative\/variants of undetermined clinical significance cases, identifying pathogenic\/likely pathogenic variants in 6\/59 (10.17%; 95% CI 3.82%\u201320.87%), providing a cohort-level incremental yield of 1.28% (6\/469).<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>This study highlights the clinical significance of CMA and WES in the prenatal diagnosis of genetic disorders in fetuses presenting with cardiac ultrasound abnormalities. 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