Feature Construction Can Improve Diagnostic Criteria for High-Dimensional Metabolic Data in Newborn Screening for Medium-Chain Acyl-CoA Dehydrogenase Deficiency
Author(s) -
S. Ho,
Zoltán Lukács,
Georg F. Hoffmann,
Martin Lindner,
Thomas C. Wetter
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
clinical chemistry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.705
H-Index - 218
eISSN - 1530-8561
pISSN - 0009-9147
DOI - 10.1373/clinchem.2006.081802
Subject(s) - analyte , newborn screening , computational biology , feature (linguistics) , computer science , chemistry , biochemistry , biology , chromatography , philosophy , linguistics
In newborn screening with tandem mass spectrometry, multiple intermediary metabolites are quantified in a single analytical run for the diagnosis of fatty-acid oxidation disorders, organic acidurias, and aminoacidurias. Published diagnostic criteria for these disorders normally incorporate a primary metabolic marker combined with secondary markers, often analyte ratios, for which the markers have been chosen to reflect metabolic pathway deviations.
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