Addition of galactose-1-phosphate measurement enhances newborn screening for classical galactosemia

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Galactosemia is an inborn disorder of carbohydrate metabolism of which early detection can prevent severe illness. Although the assay for galactose-1-phosphate uridyltransferase (GALT) enzyme activity has been available since the 1960s, many issues prevented it from becoming universal. In order to develop the Israeli newborn screening pilot algorithm for galactosemia, flow injection analysis tandem mass spectrometry measurement of galactose-1-phosphate in archived dried blood spots from newborns with classical galactosemia, galactosemia variants, epimerase deficiency, and normal controls, was conducted. Out of 431 330 newborns screened during the pilot study (30 months), two with classical galactosemia and four with epimerase deficiency were identified and confirmed. Five false positives and no false negatives were recorded. Following this pilot study, the Israeli final and routine newborn screening algorithm, as recommended by the Advisory Committee to the National Newborn Screening Program, now consists of galactose-1-phosphate measurement integrated into the routine tandem mass spectrometry panel as the first-tier screening test, and GALT enzyme activity as the second-tier performed to identify only newborns suspected to be at risk for classical galactosemia. The GALT enzyme activity cut-off used in the final algorithm was lowered in order to avoid false positives.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:46

Enthalten in:

Journal of inherited metabolic disease - 46(2023), 2 vom: 13. März, Seite 232-242

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Daas, Suha [VerfasserIn]
Abu Salah, Nasser [VerfasserIn]
Anikster, Yair [VerfasserIn]
Barel, Ortal [VerfasserIn]
Damseh, Nadirah S [VerfasserIn]
Dumin, Elena [VerfasserIn]
Fattal-Valevski, Aviva [VerfasserIn]
Falik-Zaccai, Tzipora C [VerfasserIn]
Habib, Clair [VerfasserIn]
Josefsberg, Sagi [VerfasserIn]
Korman, Stanley H [VerfasserIn]
Kneller, Katya [VerfasserIn]
Landau, Yuval [VerfasserIn]
Lerman-Sagie, Tally [VerfasserIn]
Mandel, Hanna [VerfasserIn]
Manor, Yehoshua [VerfasserIn]
Moady Abdalla, Tameemi [VerfasserIn]
Rock, Rachel [VerfasserIn]
Rostami, Nira [VerfasserIn]
Saada, Ann [VerfasserIn]
Saraf-Levy, Talya [VerfasserIn]
Shaul Lotan, Nava [VerfasserIn]
Spiegel, Ronen [VerfasserIn]
Staretz-Chacham, Orna [VerfasserIn]
Tal, Galit [VerfasserIn]
Ulanovsky, Igor [VerfasserIn]
Vaisid, Taly [VerfasserIn]
Wilnai, Yael [VerfasserIn]
Almashanu, Shlomo [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

2255-14-3
Classical galactosemia
EC 2.7.7.10
EC 5.1.-
Flow injection analysis tandem mass spectrometry
Galactose-1-phosphate
Journal Article
Newborn screening
Racemases and Epimerases
UTP-Hexose-1-Phosphate Uridylyltransferase

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Date Completed 14.03.2023

Date Revised 05.04.2023

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1002/jimd.12580

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM350270783