About the Authors

Shan Dan

Contributed equally to this work with: Shan Dan, Fang Chen, Kwong Wai Choy

zhangxq@genomics.org.cn (XZ); sd_bao@sina.com (SD)

Affiliation Department of Perinatal Medicine, Beijing Obstetrics and Gynecology Hospital – Capital Medical University, Beijing, China

Fang Chen

Contributed equally to this work with: Shan Dan, Fang Chen, Kwong Wai Choy

Affiliation Beijing Genomics Institute at Shenzhen, Shenzhen, China

Kwong Wai Choy

Contributed equally to this work with: Shan Dan, Fang Chen, Kwong Wai Choy

Affiliation Fetal Medicine Unit, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Prince of Wales Hospital, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China

Fuman Jiang

Affiliation Beijing Genomics Institute at Shenzhen, Shenzhen, China

Jingrong Lin

Affiliation Beijing Genomics Institute at Shenzhen, Shenzhen, China

Zhaoling Xuan

Affiliation Beijing Genomics Institute at Shenzhen, Shenzhen, China

Wei Wang

Affiliation Beijing Genomics Institute at Shenzhen, Shenzhen, China

Shengpei Chen

Affiliation Beijing Genomics Institute at Shenzhen, Shenzhen, China

Xuchao Li

Affiliation Beijing Genomics Institute at Shenzhen, Shenzhen, China

Hui Jiang

Affiliation Beijing Genomics Institute at Shenzhen, Shenzhen, China

Tak Yeung Leung

Affiliation Fetal Medicine Unit, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Prince of Wales Hospital, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China

Tze Kin Lau

Affiliation Fetal Medicine Unit, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Prince of Wales Hospital, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China

Yue Su

Affiliation Department of Perinatal Medicine, Beijing Obstetrics and Gynecology Hospital – Capital Medical University, Beijing, China

Weiyuan Zhang

Affiliation Department of Perinatal Medicine, Beijing Obstetrics and Gynecology Hospital – Capital Medical University, Beijing, China

Xiuqing Zhang

zhangxq@genomics.org.cn (XZ); sd_bao@sina.com (SD)

Affiliation Beijing Genomics Institute at Shenzhen, Shenzhen, China

Competing Interests

The authors have read the journal's policy and have the following conflicts: Fuman Jiang, Fang Chen and Xiuqing Zhang have filed patent applications on the prenatal detection of aneuploidy by massively parallel sequencing of amniotic fluid. The patent number is 201010252849.X in China and the date is 2010-8-13. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: XZ TYL TKL WW. Performed the experiments: JL HJ ZX. Analyzed the data: FJ SC XL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YS WZ. Wrote the paper: SD FC KWC.