Blood Sampled Through Dried Blood Spots (DBS) Exhibits Diminished Ex vivo Metabolism Compared to Whole Blood Through Use of a Kinetic Isotope-Labeling Metabolomics Approach

Collin Hill¹, Jeremy Drolet¹, Mark D Kellogg², Vladimir Tolstikov¹, Niven R Narain¹ and Michael A Kiebish^1*

¹Department of Precision Medicine, BERG, LLC, 500 Old Connecticut Path, Framingham, MA, 01701, USA

²Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Harvard Medical School, Boston Childrens’ Hospital, Boston, MA, 02115, USA