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Utilization of archived neonatal dried blood spots for genome-wide genotyping.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2020
Sok Pagna, Lupo Philip J, Richard Melissa A, Rabin Karen R, Ehli Erik A, Kallsen Noah A, Davies Gareth E, Scheurer Michael E, Brown Austin L
Abstract excerpt
INTRODUCTION: Heel pricks are performed on newborns for diagnostic screenings of various pre-symptomatic metabolic and genetic diseases. Excess blood is spotted on Guthrie cards and archived by many states in biobanks for follow-up diagnoses and public health research. However, storage environment may vary across biobanks and across time within biobanks. With increased applications of DNA extracted from spots for...
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