The critical role of psychosine in screening, diagnosis, and monitoring of Krabbe disease.
Guenzel AJ, Turgeon CT, Nickander KK, White AL, Peck DS, Pino GB, Studinski AL, Prasad VK, Kurtzberg J, Escolar ML, Lasio MLD, Pellegrino JE, Sakonju A, Hickey RE, Shallow NM, Ream MA, Orsini JJ, Gelb MH, Raymond K, Gavrilov DK, Oglesbee D, Rinaldo P, Tortorelli S, Matern D.
Guenzel AJ, et al.
Genet Med. 2020 Jun;22(6):1108-1118. doi: 10.1038/s41436-020-0764-y. Epub 2020 Feb 24.
Genet Med. 2020.
PMID: 32089546
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PURPOSE: Newborn screening (NBS) for Krabbe disease (KD) is performed by measurement of galactocerebrosidase (GALC) activity as the primary test. This revealed that GALC activity has poor specificity for KD. Psychosine (PSY) was proposed as a disease marker u …
PURPOSE: Newborn screening (NBS) for Krabbe disease (KD) is performed by measurement of galactocerebrosidase (GALC) activity a …