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Distribution of interleukin-1 receptor antagonist genotypes in sudden unexpected death in infancy (SUDI); unexplained SUDI have a higher frequency of allele 2.
Annals of medicine - 1 Jan 2010
Highet Amanda R, Berry Anne M, Goldwater Paul N
Abstract excerpt
AIMS: This investigation was designed to explore the role of IL-1RN genotype in unexplained infant deaths (including sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS)), non-infectious infant deaths, and infectious infant deaths, and to investigate whether IL-1RN genotype is related to the finding of organisms in normally sterile sites in infant deaths. METHODS: IL-1RN 89bp variable number of tandem repeat polymorphism genotype...
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