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SUBMITTER: Sawada T
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7667298 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Sawada Takaaki T Kido Jun J Sugawara Keishin K Matsumoto Shirou S Takada Fumio F Tsuboi Kazuya K Ohtake Akira A Endo Fumio F Nakamura Kimitoshi K
Molecular genetics & genomic medicine 20201005 11
<h4>Background</h4>In Japan, newborn and high-risk screening for Fabry disease (FD), an inherited X-linked disorder caused by GLA mutations, using dried blood spots was initiated in 2006. In newborn screening, 599,711 newborns were screened by December 2018, and 57 newborns from 54 families with 26 FD-associated variants were detected. In high-risk screening, 18,235 individuals who had symptoms and/or a family history of FD were screened by March 2019, and 236 individuals from 143 families with ...[more]