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Evidence for an association between infant mortality and homozygosity for the arctic variant of carnitine palmitoyltransferase 1A.
Genetics in medicine : official journal of the American College of Medical Genetics - 1 Sept 2016
Gessner Bradford D, Wood Thalia, Johnson Monique A, Richards Carolyn Sue, Koeller David M
Abstract excerpt
PURPOSE: Infant mortality in Alaska is highest among Alaska Native people from western/northern Alaska, a population with a high prevalence of a genetic variant (c.1436C>T; the arctic variant) of carnitine palmitoyltransferase 1A (CPT1A). METHODS: We performed an unmatched case-control study to determine the relationship between the arctic variant and infant mortality. The cases were 110 Alaska Native infant...
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