Journal
JOURNAL OF INHERITED METABOLIC DISEASE
Volume 46, Issue 2, Pages 232-242Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/jimd.12580
Keywords
classical galactosemia; flow injection analysis tandem mass spectrometry; galactose-1-phosphate; newborn screening
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Galactosemia is an inborn disorder of carbohydrate metabolism. Israeli newborn screening algorithm for galactosemia includes measurement of galactose-1-phosphate as the first-tier screening test and GALT enzyme activity as the second-tier test.
Galactosemia is an inborn disorder of carbohydrate metabolism of which early detection can prevent severe illness. Although the assay for galactose-1-phosphate uridyltransferase (GALT) enzyme activity has been available since the 1960s, many issues prevented it from becoming universal. In order to develop the Israeli newborn screening pilot algorithm for galactosemia, flow injection analysis tandem mass spectrometry measurement of galactose-1-phosphate in archived dried blood spots from newborns with classical galactosemia, galactosemia variants, epimerase deficiency, and normal controls, was conducted. Out of 431 330 newborns screened during the pilot study (30 months), two with classical galactosemia and four with epimerase deficiency were identified and confirmed. Five false positives and no false negatives were recorded. Following this pilot study, the Israeli final and routine newborn screening algorithm, as recommended by the Advisory Committee to the National Newborn Screening Program, now consists of galactose-1-phosphate measurement integrated into the routine tandem mass spectrometry panel as the first-tier screening test, and GALT enzyme activity as the second-tier performed to identify only newborns suspected to be at risk for classical galactosemia. The GALT enzyme activity cut-off used in the final algorithm was lowered in order to avoid false positives.
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