Implementing genomic newborn screening as an effective public health intervention: sidestepping the hype and criticism

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The development and implementation of population-based newborn screening was one of the most successful public health interventions of the twentieth century. Newborn screening is now routinely provided to almost all infants in many jurisdictions and usually includes a number of Mendelian diseases as well as some other treatable conditions of infancy. Genome-wide sequencing of the DNA that can be obtained from a...

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