Feasibility and Acceptability of a Newborn Screening Program Using Targeted Next-Generation Sequencing in One Maternity Hospital in Southern Belgium

• Main Authors: Tamara Dangouloff (Author), Kristine Hovhannesyan (Author), Davood Mashhadizadeh (Author), Frederic Minner (Author), Myriam Mni (Author), Laura Helou (Author), Flavia Piazzon (Author), Leonor Palmeira (Author), François Boemer (Author), Laurent Servais (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: MDPI AG, 2024-07-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Purpose: Genomic newborn screening programs are emerging worldwide. With the support of the local pediatric team of Liege, Belgium, we developed a panel of 405 genes that are associated with 165 early-onset, treatable diseases with the goal of creating a newborn screening test using targeted next-ge...