Test Code: McAD Preferred Name MCAD DNA studies
No
1 hour
As required
Contact laboratory
Non-medicare Item
N/A
Test Tubes
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COLLECTION NOTES
>2 years of age: 4 mL EDTA blood or 6 plucked hair roots.
<2 years of age: blood spots on neonatal screening card.
GENERAL NOTES
APPLICATION: Detection of the two most common mutations responsible for medium chain acyl CoA dehydrogenase deficiency (MCAD).
