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Interleukin 1-beta responses to bacterial toxins and sudden infant death syndrome.
FEMS immunology and medical microbiology - 1 Sept 2004
Moscovis Sophia M, Gordon Ann E, Hall Sharron T, Gleeson Maree, Scott Rodney J, Roberts-Thomsom June, Weir Donald M, Busuttil Anthony, Blackwell C Caroline
Abstract excerpt
We tested the hypothesis that significantly higher IL-1beta responses to toxic shock syndrome toxin (TSST) noted for parents of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) infants might be due in part to genetic factors such as the IL-1beta (C-511T) and IL-1RN (T+2018C) single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP). The first objective was to assess the distribution of these polymorphisms among SIDS infants, parents of SIDS...
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