Genetic newborn screening and digital technologies: A project protocol based on a dual approach to shorten the rare diseases diagnostic path in Europe.

Garnier, Nicolas; Berghout, Joanne; Zygmunt, Aldona; Singh, Deependra; Huang, Kui A; Kantz, Waltraud; Blankart, Carl Rudolf; Gillner, Sandra; Zhao, Jiawei; Roettger, Richard; Saier, Christina; Kirschner, Jan; Schenk, Joern; Atkins, Leon; Ryan, Nuala; Zarakowska, Kaja; Zschüntzsch, Jana; Zuccolo, Michela; Müllenborn, Matthias; Man, Yuen-Sum; ... (2023). Genetic newborn screening and digital technologies: A project protocol based on a dual approach to shorten the rare diseases diagnostic path in Europe. PLoS ONE, 18(11), e0293503. Public Library of Science 10.1371/journal.pone.0293503

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Since 72% of rare diseases are genetic in origin and mostly paediatrics, genetic newborn screening represents a diagnostic "window of opportunity". Therefore, many gNBS initiatives started in different European countries. Screen4Care is a research project, which resulted of a joint effort between the European Union Commission and the European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations. It focuses on genetic newborn screening and artificial intelligence-based tools which will be applied to a large European population of about 25.000 infants. The neonatal screening strategy will be based on targeted sequencing, while whole genome sequencing will be offered to all enrolled infants who may show early symptoms but have resulted negative at the targeted sequencing-based newborn screening. We will leverage artificial intelligence-based algorithms to identify patients using Electronic Health Records (EHR) and to build a repository "symptom checkers" for patients and healthcare providers. S4C will design an equitable, ethical, and sustainable framework for genetic newborn screening and new digital tools, corroborated by a large workout where legal, ethical, and social complexities will be addressed with the intent of making the framework highly and flexibly translatable into the diverse European health systems.

Item Type:

Journal Article (Original Article)

Division/Institute:

11 Centers of Competence > KPM Center for Public Management

UniBE Contributor:

Blankart, Rudolf, Gillner, Sandra

Subjects:

300 Social sciences, sociology & anthropology > 350 Public administration & military science
300 Social sciences, sociology & anthropology > 330 Economics

ISSN:

1932-6203

Publisher:

Public Library of Science

Language:

English

Submitter:

Pubmed Import

Date Deposited:

23 Nov 2023 14:32

Last Modified:

26 Nov 2023 02:26

Publisher DOI:

10.1371/journal.pone.0293503

PubMed ID:

37992053

BORIS DOI:

10.48350/189294

URI:

https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/189294

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