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Newborn screening facilitates early theranostics and improved spinal muscular atrophy outcome: five-year real-world evidence from Taiwan
24 Apr 2025
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BACKGROUND: Recent findings indicate that infants with spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) treated early through newborn screening (NBS) have better outcomes. This study aimed to investigate the long-term outcomes of a 5-year SMA NBS program in Taiwan. RESULTS: From September 2017 to August 2022, two NBS centers screened patients for SMN1 homozygous deletion using quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction...
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