Early Check

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Research Publications

Halpin, S.N., Wright, R., Gwaltney, A., Frantz, A., Peay, H., Olsson, E., Raspa, M., Gehtland, L., Andrews, S.M. (2025) Assessing the acceptability of using patient portals to recruit pregnant women and new mothers for maternal-child health research, JAMIA Open, Volume 8, Issue 3. https://doi.org/10.1093/jamiaopen/ooaf027
Cope, H. L., Milko, L. V., Jalazo, E. R., Crissman, B. G., Foreman, A. K. M., Powell, B. C., deJong, N. A., Hunter, J. E., Boyea, B. L., Forsythe, A. N., Wheeler, A. C., Zimmerman, R. S., Suchy, S. F., Begtrup, A., Langley, K. G., Monaghan, K. G., Kraczkowski, C., Hruska, K. S., Kruszka, P., Kucera, K. S., … Peay, H. L. (2024). A systematic framework for selecting gene-condition pairs for inclusion in newborn sequencing panels: Early Check implementation. Genetics in medicine: official journal of the American College of Medical Genetics, 101290. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gim.2024.101290
Lincoln-Boyea, B., Moultrie, R. R., Biesecker, B. B., Underwood, M., Duparc, M., Wheeler, A. C., & Peay, H. L. (2023). Misunderstood terms and concepts identified through user testing of educational materials for fragile X premutation: "Not weak or fragile?". Journal of Genetic Counseling, 00, 1– 11.
Bailey Jr, D. B. (2022). A Window of Opportunity for Newborn Screening. Molecular Diagnosis & Therapy, 26(3), 253-261.
Peay, H. L., Gwaltney, A. Y., Moultrie, R., Cope, H., Lincoln-Boyea, B., Porter, K. A., Duparc, M., Alexander, A. A., Biesecker, B., Isiaq, A., Check, J., Gehtland, L., Bailey Jr., D. B., & King, N. M. (2022). Education and Consent for Population-Based DNA Screening: A Mixed-Methods Evaluation of the Early Check Newborn Screening Pilot Study. Frontiers in genetics, 13, 891592.
McInnis, S., Sobolewski, J., Dass, M., Gehtland, L.M., and Bailey Jr, D. B. (2022) Using Facebook, Instagram, and Pinterest advertising campaigns to increase enrollment in newborn screening research. Front. Commun. 7:1052355.
Migliore, B. A., Zhou, L., Duparc, M., Robles, V. R., Rehder, C. W., Peay, H. L., & Kucera, K. S. (2022). Evaluation of the GSP Creatine Kinase-MM Assay and Assessment of CK-MM Stability in Newborn, Patient, and Contrived Dried Blood Spots for Newborn Screening for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy. International journal of neonatal screening, 8(1), 12.
Gehtland, L. M., Paquin, R. S., Andrews, S. M., Lee, A. M., Gwaltney, A., Duparc, M., Pfaff, E. R., & Bailey Jr, D. B. (2022). Using a Patient Portal to Increase Enrollment in a Newborn Screening Research Study: Observational Study. JMIR pediatrics and parenting, 5(1), e30941.
Katerina S. Kucera, Jennifer L. Taylor, Veronica R. Robles, Kristin Clinard, Brooke Migliore, Beth Lincoln Boyea, Katherine C. Okoniewski, Martin Duparc, Catherine W. Rehder, Scott M. Shone, Zheng Fan, Melissa Raspa, Holly L. Peay, Anne C. Wheeler, Cynthia M. Powell, Donald B. Bailey, Jr. and Lisa M. Gehtland. A Voluntary Statewide Newborn Screening Pilot for Spinal Muscular Atrophy: Results from Early Check. International Journal of Neonatal Screening, 2021 Mar 21;7(1):20.
Paquin, R. S., Lewis, M. A., Harper, B. A., Moultrie, R. R., Gwaltney, A., Gehtland, L. M., Peay, H., Duparc, M., Raspa, M., Wheeler, A. C., Powell, C. M., King, N. M., Shone, S., & Bailey Jr, D. B. (2021). Outreach to new mothers through direct mail and email: recruitment in the Early Check research study. Clinical and translational science, 14(3), 880-889. (2021)
Stacey Lee, Jennifer L. Taylor, Charles Redmond, Andrew G. Hadd, Jon A. Kemppainen, Brian C. Haynes, Scott Shone, Donald B. Bailey Jr., Gary J. Latham. Validation of Fragile X Screening in the Newborn Population Using a Fit-for-Purpose FMR1 PCR Assay System. The Journal of Molecular Diagnostics, Volume 22, Issue 3, March 2020, Pages 346-354
Guillory, J., Jordan, A., Paquin, R. S., Pikowski, J., McInnis, S., Anakaraonye, A., Peay, H., & Lewis, M. A. (2020). Using social media to conduct outreach and recruitment for expanded newborn screening. Frontiers in Communication, 5, 21.
Gehtland, L. M., & Bailey, D. B. (2019). Early check: A North Carolina research partnership. North Carolina Medical Journal, 80(1), 59-61.
Okoniewski, K. C., Wheeler, A. C., Lee, S., Boyea, B., Raspa, M., Taylor, J. L., & Bailey, D. B. (2019). Early identification of fragile X syndrome through expanded newborn screening. Brain Sciences, 9(1), 4.
Bailey, D. B., Gehtland, L. M., Lewis, M. A., Peay, H., Raspa, M., Shone, S. M., Taylor, J., Wheeler, A., Cotten, M., King, N.M., Powell, C. M., Biesecker, B., Bishop, C. E., Boyea, B. L., Duparc, M., Harper, B. A., Kemper, A. R., Lee, S. N., Moultrie, R., Okoniewski, K. C., Paquin, R. S., Pettit, D., Porter, K. A., & Zimmerman, S. J. (2019). Early Check: translational science at the intersection of public health and newborn screening. BMC pediatrics, 19(1), 1-13. (2019)
Bailey, D. B., Berry-Kravis, E., Gane, L. W., Guarda, S., Hagerman, R., Powell, C. M., Tassone, F., & Wheeler, A. (2017). Fragile X newborn screening: lessons learned from a multisite screening study. Pediatrics, 139(Suppl 3), S216-S225.
Bailey, D. B. & Gehtland, L. (2015). Newborn screening: Evolving challenges in an era of rapid discovery. JAMA, 313(15), 1511-1512.
Paquin, R. S., Peay, H. L., Gehtland, L. M., Lewis, M., & Bailey, D. B. (2016). Parental intentions to enroll children in a voluntary expanded newborn screening program. Social Science & Medicine, 166, 17-24. Epub 2016 Jul 29.