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Polymorphisms in genes involved in glucose metabolism in cases of sudden infant death syndrome.
Child: care, health and development - 1 Sept 2002
Burchell A, Forsyth L, Hume R
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BACKGROUND: Infants with intra-uterine growth retardation have an increased risk of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS). Hypoglycaemia is also significantly correlated with retardation of intra-uterine growth. A number of mutations in key proteins involved in regulation of blood glucose (e.g. glucokinase) have been found to result in reduced birth weight. Heterozygous mutations in the coding region of the...
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