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Explaining sudden infant death with cardiac arrhythmias: Complete exon sequencing of nine cardiac arrhythmia genes in Dutch SIDS cases highlights new and known DNA variants.
Forensic science international. Genetics - 1 May 2020
Liebrechts-Akkerman Germaine, Liu Fan, van Marion Ronald, Dinjens Winand N M, Kayser Manfred
Abstract excerpt
Previous studies suggested that Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) can partially be genetically explained by cardiac arrhythmias; however, the number of individuals and populations investigated remain limited. We report the first SIDS study on cardiac arrhythmias genes from the Netherlands, a country with the lowest SIDS incidence likely due to parent education on awareness of environmental risk factors. By...
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