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Postmortem genetic screening for the identification, verification, and reporting of genetic variants contributing to the sudden death of the young.
Genome research - 1 Sept 2016
Methner D Nicole R, Scherer Steven E, Welch Katherine, Walkiewicz Magdalena, Eng Christine M, Belmont John W, Powell Mark C, Korchina Viktoriya, Doddapaneni Harsha Vardhan, Muzny Donna M, Gibbs Richard A, Wolf Dwayne A, Sanchez Luis A, Kahn Roger
Abstract excerpt
Each year in the United States, thousands of cases of sudden and unexpected deaths of infants, children, and young adults are assigned an undetermined cause of death after postmortem investigation and autopsy. Heritable genetic variants have been suggested as the cause of up to a third of sudden death (SD) cases. Elucidation of the genetic variants involved in SD cases is important to not only help establish...
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