BEACONS

Background Shortly after birth, all babies in the U.S. undergo routine newborn screening (NBS). NBS saves and improves the lives of thousands of babies each year by detecting rare diseases that might otherwise go unnoticed until it’s too late for treatment.  The NBS test is done by taking a small amount of blood from a … Continued

Publications

2026

Selection of Genetic Conditions for Multi-State Genomic Newborn Screening in BEACONS-NBS

Gold NB, Johnson BA, Somanchi H, Minten T, Coury SA, Blout Zawatsky CL, Begtrup A, Butler E, Langley KG, Zimmerman R, McLaughlin HM, Ellefson T, Kern A, Rehm HL, Bick D, Brenner SE, Kasperaviciute D, Abraham RS, Aksentijevich I, Babinski M, Billington Jr. CJ, Butte MJ, Canna SW, Caron M, Chan YM, Chandrakasan S, Chiang SCC, Delmonte OMM, Diller LR, Downie L, Fleischer J, Fulton A, Ganetzky RD, Gold J, Goldbach-Mansky R, Grunebaum E, Hale RC, Hamosh A, Hildebrandt F, Holtz AM, Jacobsen C, Kan MJ, Kitcharoensakkul M, Kodyte V, Kreienkamp RJ, Lennerz BS, Lin AE, Madduri AV, Majzoub JA, Marsh RA, Miller DT, Milner JD, Mitchell DM, Murray B, Notarangelo LD, Peng XP, Place EM, Platt CD, Plon SE, Plotkin SR, Powell CM, Puck JM, Roberts AE, Sankaran VG, Schwartz DM, Seroogy CM, Srinath S, Strong A, Sullivan KE, Tan W, Tarrant TK, Thiagarajah JR, Walker MA, Wassner AJ, Bolanos HZ, The BEACONS-NBS team, Gaviglio AM, Bonhomme N, Ojodu J, Singh S, Zarbalian G, Pereira S, Goldenberg AJ, Holm IA, Wasserstein MP, Green RC
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