Issue 20, 2021

Point-of-care microchip electrophoresis for integrated anemia and hemoglobin variant testing

Abstract

Anemia affects over 25% of the world's population with the heaviest burden borne by women and children. Genetic hemoglobin (Hb) variants, such as sickle cell disease, are among the major causes of anemia. Anemia and Hb variant are pathologically interrelated and have an overlapping geographical distribution. We present the first point-of-care (POC) platform to perform both anemia detection and Hb variant identification, using a single paper-based electrophoresis test. Feasibility of this new integrated diagnostic approach is demonstrated via testing individuals with anemia and/or sickle cell disease. Hemoglobin level determination is performed by an artificial neural network (ANN) based machine learning algorithm, which achieves a mean absolute error of 0.55 g dL−1 and a bias of −0.10 g dL−1 against the gold standard (95% limits of agreement: 1.5 g dL−1) from Bland–Altman analysis on the test set. Resultant anemia detection is achieved with 100% sensitivity and 92.3% specificity. With the same tests, subjects with sickle cell disease were identified with 100% sensitivity and specificity. Overall, the presented platform enabled, for the first time, integrated anemia detection and hemoglobin variant identification using a single point-of-care test.

Graphical abstract: Point-of-care microchip electrophoresis for integrated anemia and hemoglobin variant testing

Supplementary files

Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
28 apr 2021
Accepted
17 aug 2021
First published
20 aug 2021

Lab Chip, 2021,21, 3863-3875

Point-of-care microchip electrophoresis for integrated anemia and hemoglobin variant testing

R. An, Y. Man, S. Iram, E. Kucukal, M. N. Hasan, Y. Huang, U. Goreke, A. Bode, A. Hill, K. Cheng, Z. Sekyonda, S. P. Ahuja, J. A. Little, M. Hinczewski and U. A. Gurkan, Lab Chip, 2021, 21, 3863 DOI: 10.1039/D1LC00371B

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