Abstract
Purpose: The implementation of newborn screening for lysosomal disorders has uncovered overall poor specificity, psychosocial harm experienced by caregivers, and costly follow-up testing of false-positive cases. We report an informatics solution proven to minimize these issues.
Methods: The Kentucky Department for Public Health outsourced testing for mucopolysaccharidosis type I (MPS I) and Pompe disease, conditions recently added to the recommended uniform screening panel, plus Krabbe disease, which was added by legislative mandate. A total of 55,161 specimens were collected from infants born over 1 year starting from February 2016. Testing by tandem mass spectrometry was integrated with multivariate pattern recognition software (Collaborative Laboratory Integrated Reports), which is freely available to newborn screening programs for selection of cases for which a biochemical second-tier test is needed.
Results: Of five presumptive positive cases, one was affected with infantile Krabbe disease, two with Pompe disease, and one with MPS I. The remaining case was a heterozygote for the latter condition. The false-positive rate was 0.0018% and the positive predictive value was 80%.
Conclusion: Postanalytical interpretive tools can drastically reduce false-positive outcomes, with preliminary evidence of no greater risk of false-negative events, still to be verified by long-term surveillance.
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
11-9-2017
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.1038/gim.2017.194
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Supplementary material is linked to the online version of the paper at https://doi.org/10.1038/gim.2017.194.
Repository Citation
Minter Baerg, Melissa M.; Stoway, Stephanie D.; Hart, Jeremy; Mott, Lea; Peck, Dawn S.; Nett, Stephanie L.; Eckerman, Jason S.; Lacey, Jean M.; Turgeon, Coleman T.; Gavrilov, Dimitar; Oglesbee, Devin; Raymond, Kimiyo; Tortorelli, Silvia; Matern, Dietrich; Mørkrid, Lars; and Rinaldo, Piero, "Precision Newborn Screening for Lysosomal Disorders" (2017). Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Faculty Publications. 30.
https://uknowledge.uky.edu/pathology_facpub/30
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Notes/Citation Information
Published in Genetics in Medicine, v. 20, no. 8, p. 847-854.
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