TY - JOUR
T1 - A Droplet Digital PCR Method for Severe Combined Immunodeficiency Newborn Screening
AU - Vidal-Folch, Noemi
AU - Milosevic, Dragana
AU - Majumdar, Ramanath
AU - Gavrilov, Dimitar
AU - Matern, Dietrich
AU - Raymond, Kimiyo
AU - Rinaldo, Piero
AU - Tortorelli, Silvia
AU - Abraham, Roshini S.
AU - Oglesbee, Devin
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 American Society for Investigative Pathology and the Association for Molecular Pathology
PY - 2017/9
Y1 - 2017/9
N2 - Severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID) benefits from early intervention via hematopoietic cell transplantation to reverse T-cell lymphopenia (TCL). Newborn screening (NBS) programs use T-cell receptor excision circle (TREC) levels to detect SCID. Real-time quantitative PCR is often performed to quantify TRECs in dried blood spots (DBSs) for NBS. Yet, real-time quantitative PCR has inefficiencies necessitating normalization, repeat analyses, or standard curves. To address these issues, we developed a multiplex, droplet digital PCR (ddPCR) method for measuring absolute TREC amounts in one DBS punch. TREC and RPP30 levels were simultaneously measured with a Bio-Rad AutoDG and QX200 ddPCR system. DBSs from 610 presumed-normal, 29 lymphocyte-profiled, and 10 clinically diagnosed infants (1 X-linked SCID, 1 RAG1 Omenn syndrome, and other conditions) were tested. Control infants showed 14 to 474 TREC copies/μL blood. SCID infants, and other TCL conditions, had ≤15 TREC copies/μL. The ddPCR lower limit of quantitation was 14 TREC copies/μL, and the limit of detection was 4 TREC copies/μL. Intra-assay and interassay imprecision was <20% CV for DBSs at 54 to 60 TREC copies/μL. Testing 29 infants with known lymphocyte profiles resulted in a sensitivity of 88.9% and a specificity of 100% at TRECs <20 copies/μL. We developed a multiplex ddPCR method for the absolute quantitation of DBS TRECs that can detect SCID and other TCL conditions associated with absent or low TRECs and validated this method for NBS.
AB - Severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID) benefits from early intervention via hematopoietic cell transplantation to reverse T-cell lymphopenia (TCL). Newborn screening (NBS) programs use T-cell receptor excision circle (TREC) levels to detect SCID. Real-time quantitative PCR is often performed to quantify TRECs in dried blood spots (DBSs) for NBS. Yet, real-time quantitative PCR has inefficiencies necessitating normalization, repeat analyses, or standard curves. To address these issues, we developed a multiplex, droplet digital PCR (ddPCR) method for measuring absolute TREC amounts in one DBS punch. TREC and RPP30 levels were simultaneously measured with a Bio-Rad AutoDG and QX200 ddPCR system. DBSs from 610 presumed-normal, 29 lymphocyte-profiled, and 10 clinically diagnosed infants (1 X-linked SCID, 1 RAG1 Omenn syndrome, and other conditions) were tested. Control infants showed 14 to 474 TREC copies/μL blood. SCID infants, and other TCL conditions, had ≤15 TREC copies/μL. The ddPCR lower limit of quantitation was 14 TREC copies/μL, and the limit of detection was 4 TREC copies/μL. Intra-assay and interassay imprecision was <20% CV for DBSs at 54 to 60 TREC copies/μL. Testing 29 infants with known lymphocyte profiles resulted in a sensitivity of 88.9% and a specificity of 100% at TRECs <20 copies/μL. We developed a multiplex ddPCR method for the absolute quantitation of DBS TRECs that can detect SCID and other TCL conditions associated with absent or low TRECs and validated this method for NBS.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.jmoldx.2017.05.011
DO - 10.1016/j.jmoldx.2017.05.011
M3 - Article
C2 - 28826609
AN - SCOPUS:85027680296
SN - 1525-1578
VL - 19
SP - 755
EP - 765
JO - Journal of Molecular Diagnostics
JF - Journal of Molecular Diagnostics
IS - 5
ER -