Use of Tandem Mass Spectrometry for Multianalyte Screening of Dried Blood Specimens from Newborns
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- 1 November 2003
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Clinical Chemistry
- Vol. 49 (11) , 1797-1817
- https://doi.org/10.1373/clinchem.2003.022178
Abstract
Background: Over the past decade laboratories that test for metabolic disorders have introduced tandem mass spectrometry (MS/MS), which is more sensitive, specific, reliable, and comprehensive than traditional assays, into their newborn-screening programs. MS/MS is rapidly replacing these one-analysis, one-metabolite, one-disease classic screening techniques with a one-analysis, many-metabolites, many-diseases approach that also facilitates the ability to add new disorders to existing newborn-screening panels.Keywords
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