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White papers

Alliance's White Paper on newborn screening for spinal muscular atrophy

In 2021, Alliance published a White Paper that summarised the current understanding and scientific consensus on neonatal screening for spinal muscular atrophy and made a case for a wider introduction of this diagnostic method population wide. 

Since the beginning of the work of the SMA Newborn Screening Alliance, considerable progress has been made to include SMA in nationwide newborn screening programmes in many countries. Therefore, the White Paper was updated in 2024. 

The paper can be read below in selected languages. 

The updated version is available in English and published in December 2024.

Versions in the other languages are translations of the original White Paper of 2021.

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Alliance's Poster

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Newborn screening techniques for SMA

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