The early detection of Salla disease through second-tier tests in newborn screening: how to face incidental findings.

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We describe here a 34 months child, practically asymptomatic which presented with high levels of free sialic acid in urine by biochemical detection in second-tier tests newborn screening and with two disease causing mutations in SLC17A5 gene. SLC17A5 mutation analysis showed p.Tyr306* previously described and the novel mutation p.Leu167Pro. This early onset diagnosis allowed us to perform a fast and accurate...

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