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Article: Tandem Mass Spectrometry.(diagnostic technique for screening newborns for inherited metabolic disorders)
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- The Exceptional Parent
- Article date:
- September 1, 2000
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Until very recently, routine screening of newborns for inherited metabolic disorders was limited to three to five disorders. Now, with the new method using tandem mass spectrometry (MS/MS), more than 30 of these diseases or disorders can be easily detected from a drop of blood. Parents of children with these disorders rarely have any family history to suggest the possibility of having an affected child. This is because these conditions are "autosomal recessive," which means that each parent carries a gene for the disease but is not affected. Each new baby born to those parents has a 1 in 4 chance of inheriting the defective gene from each parent. Unless the family has ...
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