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PEDIATRICS Vol. 101 No. 5 May 1998, pp. 851-855

Buccal Cell DNA Mutation Analysis for Diagnosis of Cystic Fibrosis in Newborns and Infants Inaccessible to Sweat Chloride Measurement

Received Jun 21, 1996; accepted Sep 17, 1997.

Richard B. Parad

From the Divisions of Newborn Medicine (Joint Program in Neonatology), Respiratory Diseases and Genetics, Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.

Objectives.  To assess the application of DNA-based cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) gene mutation analysis as a primary cystic fibrosis (CF) diagnostic test in preterm and term newborns and infants for whom the quantitative pilocarpine iontophoresis test (QPIT) cannot be used.

Design.  Retrospective survey.

Setting.  DNA Diagnostic Laboratory, Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts. Buccal cell DNA samples were received from inpatients, outpatients, and three neonatal intensive care units.

Outcome Measure.  Detection of at least 1 of 12 CFTR mutations.

Patients.  Between November 1, 1992, and April 30, 1994, 28 newborns and infants under 12 months of age at risk for CF had CFTR DNA mutation analysis performed because a sweat chloride (SC) value could not be obtained. QPIT was either not performed (infant weight <2 kg, QPIT not available at site of hospitalization, or infant not accessible to QPIT laboratory) or was inconclusive (sweat volume <75 mg or indeterminate SC [>= 40, <60 mEq/L]). The postnatal age at time of testing ranged from 1 day to 11 months, and gestational age at birth from 25 to 40 weeks.

Results.  Six (21%) of 28 infants with unobtainable or indeterminate QPIT had 1 or 2 CFTR mutations detected. Immediate CF diagnosis by direct detection of 2 CFTR mutations was made in 5 of these 6 patients. Definitive CF diagnosis in the infant with 1 CFTR mutation was delayed until an elevation in SC could be documented. The patients with no CFTR mutations detected had a low likelihood of CF.

Conclusions.  For infants in whom CF is suspected but QPIT cannot be obtained, buccal cell DNA-based CFTR mutation analysis can be used as a rapid, noninvasive primary diagnostic test. This simple mode of DNA collection may aid in the diagnosis of other inherited disorders in newborns.

Key words: cystic fibrosis, CFTR, sweat chloride, pilocarpine iontophoresis, DNA mutation analysis, premature newborn.




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