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Establishment of a Pilot Newborn Screening Program for Spinal Muscular Atrophy in Saint-Petersburg

Version 1 : Received: 27 February 2023 / Approved: 28 February 2023 / Online: 28 February 2023 (03:45:16 CET)

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Kiselev, A.; Maretina, M.; Shtykalova, S.; Al-Hilal, H.; Maslyanyuk, N.; Plokhih, M.; Serebryakova, E.; Frolova, M.; Shved, N.; Krylova, N.; et al. Establishment of a Pilot Newborn Screening Program for Spinal Muscular Atrophy in Saint Petersburg. International Journal of Neonatal Screening 2024, 10, 9, doi:10.3390/ijns10010009. Kiselev, A.; Maretina, M.; Shtykalova, S.; Al-Hilal, H.; Maslyanyuk, N.; Plokhih, M.; Serebryakova, E.; Frolova, M.; Shved, N.; Krylova, N.; et al. Establishment of a Pilot Newborn Screening Program for Spinal Muscular Atrophy in Saint Petersburg. International Journal of Neonatal Screening 2024, 10, 9, doi:10.3390/ijns10010009.

Abstract

Spinal muscular atrophy 5q (SMA) is the most common neuromuscular inherited disease in neonates which is associated with homozygous deletion of exon 7 in the SMN1 gene. Recently established drugs can improve the motor functions of SMA infants when treated in the pre-symptomatic stage. With aim of providing an early diagnosis, newborn screening (NBS) for SMA using real-time PCR assay with dried blood spots (DBS) was performed in Saint-Petersburg from January 2022 through November 2022. Here, 36,140 newborns were screened by GenomeX real-time PCR-based screening test, and three genotypes were determined. Homozygous deletion carriers (4 newborns), heterozygous carriers (772 newborns) and wild-type individuals (35,364 newborns) were identified. All four newborns screened positive for homozygous SMN1 deletion were confirmed by alternate methods. Two of the newborns had two copies of SMN2, and two of the newborns had three copies. We determined Saint-Petersburg spinal muscular atrophy incidence of 1 in 9,035 and SMA carrier frequency of 1 in 47. In conclusion, it can be summarized that providing both timely SMN1 information and confirmation along with SMN2 copy number as part of SMA newborn screening algorithm can significantly improve clinical follow-up, family members testing, and SMA patients' treatment.

Keywords

spinal muscular atrophy; newborn screening; SMN1; SMN2 ; real-time PCR; dried blood spots; SMA incidence; carrier frequency

Subject

Biology and Life Sciences, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

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