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Single ABCA3 mutations increase risk for neonatal respiratory distress syndrome.
Pediatrics - 1 Dec 2012
Wambach Jennifer A, Wegner Daniel J, Depass Kelcey, Heins Hillary, Druley Todd E, Mitra Robi D, An Ping, Zhang Qunyuan, Nogee Lawrence M, Cole F Sessions, Hamvas Aaron
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BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Neonatal respiratory distress syndrome (RDS) due to pulmonary surfactant deficiency is heritable, but common variants do not fully explain disease heritability. METHODS: Using next-generation, pooled sequencing of race-stratified DNA samples from infants ≥34 weeks' gestation with and without RDS (n = 513) and from a Missouri population-based cohort (n = 1066), we scanned all exons of 5...
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