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Whole-Genome Screening of Newborns? The Constitutional Boundaries of State Newborn Screening Programs.
Pediatrics - 1 Jan 2016
King Jaime S, Smith Monica E
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State newborn screening (NBS) programs routinely screen nearly all of the 4 million newborns in the United States each year for ∼30 primary conditions and a number of secondary conditions. NBS could be on the cusp of an unprecedented expansion as a result of advances in whole-genome sequencing (WGS). As WGS becomes cheaper and easier and as our knowledge and understanding of human genetics expand, the question of...
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