Successful Newborn Screening for SCID in the Navajo Nation

Newborn screening (NBS) for severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID) identifies affected infants before the onset of life-threatening infections, permitting optimal treatment. Navajo Native Americans have a founder mutation in the DNA repair enzyme Artemis, resulting in frequent Artemis SCID (SCID-A)...

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Published in:Clin Immunol
Main Authors: Kwan, Antonia, Hu, Diana, Song, Miran, Gomes, Heidi, Brown, Denise R., Bourque, Trudy, Gonzalez-Espinosa, Diana, Lin, Zhili, Cowan, Morton J., Puck, Jennifer M.
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: 2015
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4420660/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25762520
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.clim.2015.02.015
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