Article
Significant association of TH01 allele 9.3 and SIDS.
Journal of forensic sciences - 1 Mar 2011
Courts Cornelius, Madea Burkhard
Abstract excerpt
Sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) constitutes a considerable percentage of infant death of unknown etiology. Individual catecholamine response variation is suspected to play a role in SIDS. TH01 is a tetrameric short tandem repeat marker in the tyrosine hydroxylase gene, which regulates gene expression and catecholamine production with allele 9.3 exerting a particularly strong effect on noradrenaline...
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