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For more than a decade, non-invasive prenatal blood testing, or NIPT, has been a fairly routine aspect of pregnancy care.

This testing searches a pregnant person's blood for fragments of DNA that have been shed by the placenta.

NIPT is designed to spot chromosomal disorders in the fetus, but in rare cases the blood

test can detect something else.

Cancer in the parent.

My guest today is Laura Hersher, a genetic counselor and director of student research

at the Sarah Lawrence College Joan H. Mark's graduate program in human genetics.

She recently wrote a piece for Scientific American about the researchers working to understand how NIPT finds cancer in some

pregnant people. She's here to tell us more about the incidental detection of maternal neoplasia

through non-invasive cell-free DNA analysis study or Identify for short.

Laura, thank you so much for coming on to chat today.

So you recently wrote about something called the Identify Study.

How did you get interested in the story?

Well, the first time I heard about Identify was when the principal investigator,

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