Newborn Screening Practices for Beta-Thalassemia in the United States

• Main Authors: Michael A. Bender (Author), Mary Hulihan (Author), Mary Christine Dorley (Author), Maria del Pilar Aguinaga (Author), Jelili Ojodu (Author), Careema Yusuf (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: MDPI AG, 2021-12-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Beta-thalassemia, a heritable condition of abnormal hemoglobin production, is not a core condition on the United States Recommended Uniform Screening Panel (RUSP) for state and territorial newborn screening (NBS) programs. However, screening for sickle cell disease (which is on the core RUSP) also d...