Newborn screening in Spain, with particular reference to Galicia: Echoes of Louis I. Woolf

Molecular Genetics and Metabolism

Volumn 101, Issue 2-3, 2010, Pages 95-98

  Alonso Fernandez J R ^a   Colon C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Galicia; Louis I. Woolf; Newborn screening; Planar chromatography; Spain

Indexed keywords

BLOOD SAMPLING; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; INBORN ERROR OF METABOLISM; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; NEWBORN; NEWBORN SCREENING; NOTE; PLANAR CHROMATOGRAPHY; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPAIN;

HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MASS SCREENING; METABOLISM, INBORN ERRORS; NEONATAL SCREENING; PHENYLKETONURIAS; SPAIN;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 77957223843     PISSN: 10967192     EISSN: 10967206     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ymgme.2010.06.001     Document Type: Note

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