Abstract
Dried blood spots (DBS) have advantages such as minimizing blood collection volume and the distress to neonate. DBS have been used for tandem mass spectrometry (MS/MS)-based newborn screening tests (NST) of amino acid (AA) and acylcarnitine. The Newborn Screening Quality Assurance Program (NSQAP) have been provided quality control (QC) materials for MS/MS, as DBS cards. The NSQAP is generally provided within 14 months of the shelf life and the recommended storage condition is at −10 °C to −30 °C. Previously, several accelerated degradation studies had been performed to determine the transportation stability and short-term stability of AAs and acylcarnitines in DBS. However, the experimental condition is markedly different to the storage condition. We performed long-term monitoring for the real-time stability of seven AAs and 14 acylcarnitines from three levels of 2012 NSQAP QC materials across a time period of 788 days. Arginine suddenly yielded a catastrophic degeneration pattern, which started around D300. When comparing this with previous accelerated degradation studies, methionine, tyrosine, citrulline, and acetylcarnitine did not show a remarkable measurand drift for the real-time stability, except for arginine. Our study showed that arginine would require intensive QC monitoring in routine practice, and should be used for the assessment of the stability in long-term storage of DBS samples for biobanking.
Subject
Filtration and Separation,Analytical Chemistry
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