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Umbilical Cord Blood Sampling for Newborn Screening of Pompe Disease and the Detection of a Novel Pathogenic Variant and Pseudodeficiency Variants in an Asian population
2025-07-11
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<h4>Background: </h4> Pompe disease is an autosomal recessive metabolic disorder caused by acid alpha-glucosidase (GAA) deficiency. The use of umbilical cord blood (UCB) for newborn screening (NBS) of Pompe disease, compared to heel-prick sampling, has not been widely studied. <h4>Methods:</h4> This study compared GAA activity in UCB from term newborns with peripheral or heel-prick blood samples obtained on days 1...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 57c0b466-bb00-5e99-bd6e-c5252657c335
- DOI
- 10.20944/preprints202507.1039.v1
