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ArticleNeuroscience letters2021

The future of newborn screening for lysosomal disorders.

Melissa P Wasserstein, Joseph J Orsini, Aaron Goldenberg, Michele Caggana, Paul A Levy, Margo Breilyn, Michael H Gelb

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Article in Neuroscience letters, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 21 papers.

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21citing papers in PubMed
3.6field-weighted citation impact, top 6% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

21 citing papers in PubMed, 39 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Biologic Therapies for Alleviating Neurodegeneration in Lysosomal Storage Diseases.BioDrugs : clinical immunotherapeutics, biopharmaceuticals and gene therapy · 2026
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  8. Obstacles to Early Diagnosis of Gaucher Disease.Therapeutics and clinical risk management · 2025
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  12. [Development of analytics in newborn screening-from the Guthrie card to genetics].Bundesgesundheitsblatt, Gesundheitsforschung, Gesundheitsschutz · 2023
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  16. Scaling genetic resources: New paradigms for diagnosis and treatment of rare genetic disease.American journal of medical genetics. Part C, Seminars in medical genetics · 2023
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  20. Newborn screening research sponsored by the NIH: From diagnostic paradigms to precision therapeutics.American journal of medical genetics. Part C, Seminars in medical genetics · 2022
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.

Melissa P WassersteinDepartment of Pediatrics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine and the Children's Hospital at Montefiore, Bronx, NY, United States. Electronic address: melissa.wasserstein@einsteinmed.org.
Joseph J OrsiniWadsworth Center, New York State Department of Health, Albany, NY, United States.
Aaron GoldenbergDepartment of Bioethics, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, United States.
Michele CagganaWadsworth Center, New York State Department of Health, Albany, NY, United States.
Paul A LevyDepartment of Pediatrics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine and the Children's Hospital at Montefiore, Bronx, NY, United States.
Margo BreilynDepartment of Pediatrics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine and the Children's Hospital at Montefiore, Bronx, NY, United States.
Michael H GelbDepartment of Chemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States.
Albert Einstein College of Medicine · USNew York State Department of Health · USCase Western Reserve University · USUniversity of Washington · US

Funding

Multiplex Analysis of Inborn Errors of MetabolismR01DK067859 · NIDDK · UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON · PI GELB, MICHAEL H · 2003 to 2025
$9.8M
NY ScreenPlus: A Comprehensive, Flexible, Multi-disorder Newborn Screening ProgramR01HD073292 · NICHD · ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI · PI Melissa Pittel Wasserstein · 2012 to 2026
$8.3M
SUPPORT FOR THE ROSE F KENNEDY IDDRC P50P50HD105352 · NICHD · ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE · PI Julie Secombe · 2021 to 2026
$7.0M
NICHD NIH HHS P50 HD105352NICHD NIH HHS R01 HD073292NIDDK NIH HHS R01 DK067859
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The goal of newborn screening is to enhance the outcome of individuals with serious, treatable disorders through early, pre-symptomatic detection. The lysosomal storage disorders (LSDs) comprise a group of more than 50 diseases with a combined frequency of approximately 1:7000. With the availability of existing and new enzyme replacement therapies, small molecule treatments and gene therapies, there is increasing interest in screening newborns for LSDs with the goal of reducing disease-related morbidity and mortality through early detection. Novel screening methods are being developed, including efforts to enhance accuracy of screening using an array of multi-tiered, genomic, statistical, and bioinformatic approaches. While NBS data for Gaucher disease, Fabry disease, Krabbe disease, MPS I, and Pompe disease has demonstrated the feasibility of widespread screening, it has also highlighted some of the complexities of screening for LSDs. These include the identification of infants with later-onset, untreatable, and uncertain phenotypes, raising interesting ethical concerns that should be addressed as part of the NBS implementation process. Taken together, these efforts will provide critical, detailed data to help guide objective, ethically sensitive decision-making about NBS for LSDs.

Indexed as

Age of OnsetDecision Making, OrganizationalEthics, MedicalForecastingHealth Plan ImplementationHumansIncidenceInfant, NewbornLysosomal Storage DiseasesNeonatal ScreeningTreatment OutcomeLysosomal storage disordersNewborn screening

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PMID34166724
PMCPMC10387443
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