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The first medication to treat 5q SMA was registered in the Russian Federation for treatment of all 5q SMA types in 2019, and the last of the three currently available in December 2021. We launched the pilot newborn screening (NBS) program for 5q SMA in Moscow, the Russian Federation, starting in 2019. During the pilot program, 23,405 neonates were tested for the deletion of exon 7 of the SMN1 gene, the most common cause of 5q SMA. We used the SALSA\u00ae MC002 SMA Newborn Screen Kit (MRC Holland) to specifically detect homozygous deletions of SMN1 exon 7. We used the restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) approach to validate detected homozygous deletions and the SALSA MLPA Probemix P060 SMA Carrier Kit (MRC Holland) to determine the SMN2 exon 7 copy number to prescribe gene therapy for 5q SMA. Three newborns with a homozygous deletion of the SMN1 gene were detected. The calculated birth prevalence of 1:7801 appears to be similar to the results in other European countries. The children did not show any signs of respiratory involvement or bulbar weakness immediately after birth. 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