Division of Laboratory Sciences

• Newborn Screening: Quality Assurance and Proficiency Testing for Newborn Screening
  This CDC Program is a Voluntary, Non-regulatory Program to Help State Health Departments and their Laboratories Maintain and Enhance the Quality of Newborn Test Results

• Birth Defects: Newborn Screening and Related Conditions
  Pediatric Genetics website, for Birth Defects at CDC, listing a number of activities and publications.
• Early Hearing Detection and Intervention and Integration: Research Projects
• Single Gene Disorders and Disability (SGDD):  Newborn Screening Projects
  • Duchenne/Becker Muscular Dystrophy (DBMD) Screening and Diagnosis
    Working with several partners to gather information on ways to improve screening and diagnosis for DBMD
  • Development of a newborn screening test for fragile X syndrome (FXS)
    Developing an inexpensive and reliable screening test for FXS and testing de-identified blood spots from newborns to determine prevalence