TEXAS — Babies born in the Lone Star State as of June will now be tested for additional rare genetic disorders.
“The idea of the newborn screening is that we find them before those complications arise, and then you can improve them,” says Dr. Luis Umana, a genetic and metabolism specialist at Children’s Health in Dallas.
The Texas Department of State Health Services has added the rare genetic disorder guanidinoacetate methyltransferase (GAMT) deficiency to the newborn screening test…