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Newborn screening for X-linked adrenoleukodystrophy: evidence summary and advisory committee recommendation

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Significant challenges exist for implementing comprehensive X-ALD newborn screening, including incorporation of the test, coordinating follow-up diagnostic and treatment care, and coordination of extended family testing after case identification.
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This article is published in Genetics in Medicine.The article was published on 2017-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 69 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Newborn screening.

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X-linked adrenoleukodystrophy: Pathology, pathophysiology, diagnostic testing, newborn screening and therapies.

TL;DR: This review summarizes the current understanding of the pathogenic cell‐ and tissue‐specific roles of lipid species in the context of experimental therapeutic strategies and provides an overview of critical historical developments, therapeutic trials and the advent of newborn screening in the USA.
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Precision newborn screening for lysosomal disorders.

TL;DR: 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.
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Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation in Inborn Errors of Metabolism

TL;DR: Novel strategies, such as gene therapy, have shown encouraging clinical results in selected IEMs and might become more widely available in the future, with potentially better enzyme delivery and reduced transplant-related toxicity.
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Newborn screening: a review of history, recent advancements, and future perspectives in the era of next generation sequencing.

TL;DR: The newborn screening program is a successful public health initiative that facilitates early diagnosis of treatable disorders to reduce long-term morbidity and mortality.
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X-linked adrenoleukodystrophy.

TL;DR: A promising new method for mass newborn screening has been developed, the implementation of which will have a profound effect on the diagnosis and therapy of X-ALD.
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X-linked adrenoleukodystrophy (X-ALD): clinical presentation and guidelines for diagnosis, follow-up and management

TL;DR: This review focuses on the diagnosis and management of patients with X-ALD and provides a guideline for clinicians that encounter patients with this highly complex disorder.
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Ethical and Policy Issues in Genetic Testing and Screening of Children

TL;DR: This policy statement represents recommendations developed collaboratively by the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics with respect to many of the scenarios in which genetic testing and screening can occur.
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Adrenoleukodystrophy: Incidence, new mutation rate, and results of extended family screening

TL;DR: Diagnostic tests should be offered to all at‐risk relatives of X‐ALD patients and should include members of the extended family, because identification of heterozygotes provides the opportunity for disease prevention through genetic counseling.
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