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Newborn Screening for Severe Primary Immunodeficiency Diseases in Sweden-a 2-Year Pilot TREC and KREC Screening Study.
Journal of clinical immunology - 1 Jan 2017
Barbaro Michela, Ohlsson Annika, Borte Stephan, Jonsson Susanne, Zetterström Rolf H, King Jovanka, Winiarski Jacek, von Döbeln Ulrika, Hammarström Lennart
Abstract excerpt
Newborn screening for severe primary immunodeficiencies (PID), characterized by T and/or B cell lymphopenia, was carried out in a pilot program in the Stockholm County, Sweden, over a 2-year period, encompassing 58,834 children. T cell receptor excision circles (TREC) and kappa-deleting recombination excision circles (KREC) were measured simultaneously using a quantitative PCR-based method on DNA extracted from...
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