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Neonatal hyperbilirubinemia in Japanese neonates: analysis of the heme oxygenase-1 gene and fetal hemoglobin composition in cord blood.
Pediatric research - 1 Aug 2003
Kanai Masayo, Akaba Kazuhiro, Sasaki Ayako, Sato Michihiko, Harano Teruo, Shibahara Shigeki, Kurachi Hirohisa, Yoshida Tadashi, Hayasaka Kiyoshi
Abstract excerpt
Neonatal hyperbilirubinemia is frequent and severe in Japanese infants. Although the G71R mutation of the bilirubin uridine diphosphate-glucuronosyltransferase gene is associated with severe neonatal hyperbilirubinemia in this population, it accounts for only half of the neonates with severe hyperbilirubinemia. It was suggested that increased bilirubin production would also be associated with severe neonatal...
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