Dried blood spots for newborn screening allows easy determination of a high heteroplasmy rate in severe infantile cardiomyopathy

Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Genome Informatics, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, 565-0871, Japan; Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, 565-0871, Japan.
• ² Division of Functional Genomics & Systems Medicine, Research Center for Genomic Medicine, Saitama Medical University, 350-1241, Japan.
• ³ Department of Pediatrics, Toyama Prefectural Central Hospital, Japan.
• ⁴ Division of Translational Research, Research Center for Genomic Medicine, Saitama Medical University, 350-1241, Japan.
• ⁵ Department of Genome Informatics, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, 565-0871, Japan.
• ⁶ Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, 565-0871, Japan.
• ⁷ Department of Metabolism, Chiba Children's Hospital, Japan.
• ⁸ Department of Pediatrics, Saitama Medical University, 350-0495, Japan.
• ⁹ Division of Functional Genomics & Systems Medicine, Research Center for Genomic Medicine, Saitama Medical University, 350-1241, Japan; Division of Translational Research, Research Center for Genomic Medicine, Saitama Medical University, 350-1241, Japan. Electronic address: okazaki@saitama-med.ac.jp.