Baby Detect : Genomic Newborn Screening

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Baby Detect : Genomic Newborn Screening

Study Purpose

Newborn screening (NBS) is a global initiative of systematic testing at birth to identify babies with pre-defined severe but treatable conditions. With a simple blood test, rare genetic conditions can be easily detected, and the early start of transformative treatment will help avoid severe disabilities and increase the quality of life. Baby Detect Project is an innovative NBS program using a panel of target sequencing that aims to identify 126 treatable severe early onset genetic diseases at birth caused by 361 genes. The list of diseases has been established in close collaboration with the Paediatricians of the University Hospital in Liege. The investigators use dedicated dried blood spots collected between the first day and 28 days of life of babies, after a consent sign by parents.

Recruitment Criteria

Accepts Healthy Volunteers Healthy volunteers are participants who do not have a disease or condition, or related conditions or symptoms	Yes
Study Type An interventional clinical study is where participants are assigned to receive one or more interventions (or no intervention) so that researchers can evaluate the effects of the interventions on biomedical or health-related outcomes. An observational clinical study is where participants identified as belonging to study groups are assessed for biomedical or health outcomes. Searching Both is inclusive of interventional and observational studies.	Observational
Eligible Ages	N/A - 28 Days
Gender	All

More Inclusion & Exclusion Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

- newborn between birth and 28 days of life.

- consent of parent.

Exclusion Criteria:

- + 28 days.

- Non consent of parent

Trial Details

Trial ID: This trial id was obtained from ClinicalTrials.gov, a service of the U.S. National Institutes of Health, providing information on publicly and privately supported clinical studies of human participants with locations in all 50 States and in 196 countries.	NCT05687474
Phase Phase 1: Studies that emphasize safety and how the drug is metabolized and excreted in humans. Phase 2: Studies that gather preliminary data on effectiveness (whether the drug works in people who have a certain disease or condition) and additional safety data. Phase 3: Studies that gather more information about safety and effectiveness by studying different populations and different dosages and by using the drug in combination with other drugs. Phase 4: Studies occurring after FDA has approved a drug for marketing, efficacy, or optimal use.
Lead Sponsor The sponsor is the organization or person who oversees the clinical study and is responsible for analyzing the study data.	Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Liege
Principal Investigator The person who is responsible for the scientific and technical direction of the entire clinical study.	Laurent Servais
Principal Investigator Affiliation	Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Liege
Agency Class Category of organization(s) involved as sponsor (and collaborator) supporting the trial.	Other, Industry
Overall Status	Recruiting
Countries	Belgium
Conditions The disease, disorder, syndrome, illness, or injury that is being studied.	Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia, Familial Hyperinsulinemic Hypoglycemia 1, Phosphoglucomutase 1 Deficiency, Maturity Onset Diabetes of the Young, Cystic Fibrosis, Hypophosphatasia, Infantile, Congenital Hypothyroidism, Deficit in Anterior Pituitary Function and Variable Immunodeficiency, Pituitary Hormone Deficiency, Combined, Diamond Blackfan Anemia, Wiskott-Aldrich Syndrome, Fanconi Anemia, Hemophilia A, Hemophilia B, Glucose 6 Phosphate Dehydrogenase Deficiency, Alpha-Thalassemia, Sickle Cell Disease, Shwachman-Diamond Syndrome, Alpha 1-Antitrypsin Deficiency, Inflammatory Bowel Disease 25, Autosomal Recessive, Wilson Disease, Progressive Familial Intrahepatic Cholestasis, Crigler-Najjar Syndrome, Familial Chylomicronemia, Lysosomal Acid Lipase Deficiency, Familial Hemophagocytic Lymphocytosis, Griscelli Syndrome, Chediak-Higashi Syndrome, Severe Congenital Neutropenia, Severe Combined Immune Deficiency, Chronic Granulomatous Disease, Menkes Disease, Adrenoleukodystrophy, Smith-Lemli-Opitz Syndrome, Ataxia With Vitamin E Deficiency, Thiamine Metabolism Dysfunction Syndrome 5 (Episodic Encephalopathy Type), Thiamine Metabolism Dysfunction Syndrome 4 (Bilateral Striatal Degeneration and Progressive Polyneuropathy Type), Thiamine-Responsive Megaloblastic Anemia, Thiamine Metabolism Dysfunction Syndrome 2, Deficiency of GOT2, Cerebral Folate Transport Deficiency, Segawa Syndrome, Autosomal Recessive, Congenital Myasthenic Syndrome, Metachromatic Leukodystrophy, Sepiapterin Reductase Deficiency, Dopamine Beta Hydroxylase Deficiency, Glut1 Deficiency Syndrome, Late-Infantile Neuronal Ceroid Lipofuscinosis, Aromatic L-amino Acid Decarboxylase Deficiency, Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease, Type 6C, Hereditary Hyperekplexia, Brain Dopamine-Serotonin Vesicular Transport Disease, Very Long Chain Hydroxy Acyl Dehydrogenase Deficiency, Tyrosinemia, Type I, Disaccharide Intolerance I, Beta Ketothiolase Deficiency, Phosphoglycerate Dehydrogenase Deficiency, Succinyl-Coa:3-Ketoacid Coa-Transferase Deficiency, Pyridoxine-5'-Phosphate Oxidase Deficiency, Pyridoxine-Dependent Epilepsy, Propionic Acidemia, Pompe Disease, Phenylalanine Hydroxylase Deficiency, Ornithine Transcarbamylase Deficiency, N Acetyl Glutamate Synthetase Deficiency, Riboflavin Deficiency, Maple Syrup Urine Disease, Medium Chain Acyl CoA Dehydrogenase Deficiency, Malonic Acidemia, Long-chain 3-hydroxyacyl-CoA Dehydrogenase Deficiency, Isovaleric Acidemia, Phosphoserine Aminotransferase Deficiency, Phosphoserine Phosphatase Deficiency, Hyperornithinemia-Hyperammonemia-Homocitrullinuria, S-Adenosylhomocysteine Hydrolase Deficiency, Mucopolysaccharidosis VII, Mucopolysaccharidosis VI, Mucopolysaccharidosis IV A, Mucopolysaccharidosis II, Mucopolysaccharidosis I, Transcobalamin Deficiency, Isolated Methylmalonic Acidemia, Cobalamin Deficiency, Homocystinuria, Holocarboxylase Synthetase Deficiency, Fanconi Bickel Syndrome, Glycogen Storage Disease, Glycine Encephalopathy, Glutaric Acidemia I, Glucose Galactose Malabsorption, Gaucher Disease, Type 1, Galactosemias, Fructosemia, Fructose-1,6-Diphosphatase Deficiency, Carbamoyl Phosphate Synthase 1 Deficiency, Citrullinemia Type II, Citrullinemia 1, Creatine Deficiency Syndrome, Systemic Primary Carnitine Deficiency, Carnitine Palmitoyltransferase Deficiency 2, Carnitine Palmitoyltransferase Deficiency 1, Carnitine Acylcarnitine Translocase Deficiency, Riboflavin Transporter Deficiency, Branched-Chain Keto Acid Dehydrogenase Kinase Deficiency, Andersen Tawil Syndrome, Timothy Syndrome, Jervell-Lange Nielsen Syndrome, Catecholaminergic Polymorphic Ventricular Tachycardia, Familial Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Type 4, Pseudohypoaldosteronism, Type II, Pseudohypoaldosteronism Type 1, Primary Hyperoxaluria, X Linked Hypophosphatemia, Hereditary Nephrogenic Diabetes Insipidus, Cystinosis, Congenital Nephrotic Syndrome, Finnish Type, Alport Syndrome, Hereditary Retinoblastoma, Biotinidase Deficiency, Aciduria, Argininosuccinic, Argininemia, Acyl-CoA Dehydrogenase Family, Member 9, Deficiency of, 3-Hydroxy 3-Methyl Glutaric Aciduria, 3-Hydroxy-3-Methylglutaryl-CoA Synthase 2 Deficiency
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Additional Details

Every year, thousands of children around the world are born with rare genetic diseases leading to death or lifelong disability. With technological advancements in the field of genetics and medicine, the rate of introduction of treatments for these rare conditions has grown remarkably. However, timing is of great importance for medication administration. The benefit that can be measured in a patient who has already suffered from a long irreversible degenerative disorder is small and, sometimes, it hardly justifies the cost and the burden of the treatment. Early diagnosis is, thus, of primary importance both to obtain the best effect of the innovative medications and to accelerate their development. The investigators are pioneered in the field of genetic newborn screening (NBS) in rare diseases by funding, designing, and leading an innovative genetic NBS program initiated in March 2018 in Southern Belgium for Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) that allowed, so far, for 11 children to be detected and treated early and avoid the terrible fate of the disease. The program was disseminated in 17 countries and included public dissemination and health-economic analysis since the very beginning [1]. (www.facebook.com/sunmayariseonsma). Drawing upon our experience with SMA screening, the investigators have designed a project to screen up to 40,000 newborns/year progressively in 3 years for virtually all the rare diseases that can benefit from treatment or a pre-symptomatic clinical trial. The methodology of Baby Detect includes sequencing of target genes on dried blood spots collected from the NBS cards in a timely and cost-efficient manner, and its high dynamicity allows for any newly treatable rare disease to be included in its scheme in no longer than 6 months. Baby Detect, as a multidisciplinary newborn screening program, involves expertise in areas from genetics and medicine to laboratory studies, computer science, Data Protection, Ethics, and health economy. It will constitute the proof of concept that is needed before moving to a whole region-scale population.

Arms & Interventions

Arms

: Newborns with consent

Newborns with parent's consent

Interventions

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