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DISORDERS POTENTIALLY DETECTABLE BY THE COMPREHENSIVE NEWBORN SCREENING PROGRAM AT NEO GEN SCREENING
                                                                                                                           
     Biotinidase Deficiency
     Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia:
                 Salt Wasting 21 Hydroxylase Deficiency
                 Simple Virilizing 21 Hydroxylase Deficiency
     Congenital Hypothyroidism
     Cystic Fibrosis (not valid after 3 months of age)
     Galactosemia:
                 Galactokinase Deficiency
                 Galactose-1-Phosphate Uridyl Transferase Deficiency
                 Galactose-4-Epimerase Deficiency
     Glucose-6-Phosphate Dehydrogenase Deficiency
     Sickle Cell Disease
     Amino Acid Disorders (using tandem mass spectrometry):
                Phenylketonuria
                Maple Syrup Urine Disease
                Citrullinemia
                Argininosuccinic Aciduria
     Acylcarnitine Disorders (using tandem mass spectrometry):
                Organic Acid Disorders:
                              Methylmalonic Acidemias:
                                         Methylmalonyl-CoA Mutase Deficiencies (mut0 and mut+)                                                       
                                         *Adenosylcobalamin Synthesis Defects (CblA and CblB)
                             Propionic Acidemia (Acute and Late Onset)
                             Isovaleric Acidemia (Acute and Late Onset)
                             Glutaric Acidemia-Type I
                            3-Methylcrotonyl-CoA Carboxylase Deficiency
                            3-Hydroxy-3-Methylglutaryl-CoA Lyase Deficiency
                            *Multiple CoA Carboxylase Deficiency
                            *3-Ketothiolase Deficiency
                            *3-Methylglutaconyl-CoA Hydratase Deficiency
                            *2,4-Dienoyl-CoA Reductase Deficiency
     
                Fatty Acid Oxidation Disorders:
                             Medium Chain Acyl-CoA Dehydrogenase Deficiency (MCAD)
                             Short Chain Acyl-CoA Dehydrogenase Deficiency (SCAD)
                             Very Long Chain Acyl-CoA Dehydrogenase Deficiency (VLCAD)
                             3-Hydroxy Long Chain Acyl-CoA Dehydrogenase Deficiency
                             *Carnitine Palmitoyl Transferase Deficiency-Type II
                             Multiple Acyl-CoA Dehydrogenase Deficiency (Glutaric Acidemia-Type II) 
    * Theoretically detectable in newborn period, but not yet identified in our SNS Program  2-10-2000
  
  
   
  
  
  
  
  
 
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