Answers from the Lab

Matthew Schultz, Ph.D., and Amy White, M.S., CGC, explain how Mayo Clinic Laboratories' unique urine assay (Mayo ID: SORD) screens for peripheral neuropathy arising from SORD gene variants. Although recently identified, SORD-related peripheral neuropathy is fairly common.


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Would you share a little bit about yourself and your background?
 
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 Could you provide us with an overview of this particular peripheral neuropathy? 
 
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 Can you share the background as to how your team learned about this condition and how you considered testing for it?
 
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Would you explain what you saw when you performed the urine test on the first patient?
 
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 Were you able to test additional patients with this condition?
 
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Could you expand on why this urine test is important?
 
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 How does a health care provider order urine testing for SORD deficiency?
 
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 How does this new SORD urine test complement the existing Mayo Clinic Laboratories test menu?
 
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Could you summarize the benefits of ordering this SORD urine test at Mayo?

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