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High incidence of profound biotinidase deficiency detected in newborn screening blood spots in the Somalian population in Minnesota.
Journal of inherited metabolic disease - 1 Dec 2009
Sarafoglou K, Bentler K, Gaviglio A, Redlinger-Grosse K, Anderson C, McCann M, Bloom B, Babovic-Vuksanovic D, Gavrilov D, Berry S A
Abstract excerpt
Newborns identified with profound biotinidase deficiency (BTD) by the Minnesota Newborn Screening Program (MN NBS) between 1 October 2004 and 30 May 2008 were all from new immigrant groups. Thirty-three positive cases of BTD were identified out of 264 727 infants screened by the Wolf colorimetric...
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