Belén Pérez González

Belén Pérez González

Belén Pérez González
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Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the Autonomous University of Madrid and deputy director of the Centre for Molecular Disease Diagnosis at the Centre for Molecular Biology (CBM-UAM-CSIC).

Newborn genetic screening outperforms standard screening in detecting more serious diseases, preliminary study finds

Early results from a study of newborn screening methods show that DNA analysis detects many more serious preventable or treatable diseases than standard newborn screening. The study, published today in the journal JAMA, is one of the first large-scale studies in the world to use genome sequencing as a method of newborn screening and is the first to publish preliminary results. 

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