Research results: Preserving newborn blood samples

Science Translational Medicine

Volumn 4, Issue 159, 2012, Pages

  Lewis, Michelle Huckaby ^a   Scheurer, Michael E ^b   Green, Robert C ^c   McGuire, Amy L ^b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA;

BLOOD SAMPLING; BLOOD STORAGE; CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION; DNA MODIFICATION; EPIGENETICS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC SCREENING; HUMAN; HUMAN RIGHTS; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NEWBORN; NEWBORN BLOOD SAMPLING; NEWBORN SCREENING; NOTE; PATIENT AUTONOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; QUALITY CONTROL; SEROPREVALENCE;

BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; BLOOD PRESERVATION; BLOOD SPECIMEN COLLECTION; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; LEGISLATION AS TOPIC; NEONATAL SCREENING; PUBLIC HEALTH;

EID: 84869134028     PISSN: 19466234     EISSN: 19466242     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/scitranslmed.3004474     Document Type: Note

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