Reassessing the Inclusion of Race in Prenatal Screening for Open Neural Tube Defects

William Butler; Rebecca G Ramesh; Jonathan von Reusner; Lorraine Dugoff; Sindhu K Srinivas; Christina C Pierre; Daniel S Herman

doi:10.1001/jamapediatrics.2024.5913

Reassessing the Inclusion of Race in Prenatal Screening for Open Neural Tube Defects

JAMA Pediatr. 2025 Jan 6. doi: 10.1001/jamapediatrics.2024.5913. Online ahead of print.

Authors

William Butler¹, Rebecca G Ramesh¹, Jonathan von Reusner¹, Lorraine Dugoff², Sindhu K Srinivas², Christina C Pierre¹, Daniel S Herman¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.
² Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.

PMID: 39761055
DOI: 10.1001/jamapediatrics.2024.5913

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Plain language summary

This quality improvement study explores whether the benefit of detecting open neural tube defects outweighs the harms of practicing race-based medicine.