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Post-mortem genetic investigation of cardiac disease-associated genes in sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) cases.
International journal of legal medicine - 1 Jan 2021
Köffer Jasmin, Scheiper-Welling Stefanie, Verhoff Marcel A, Bajanowski Thomas, Kauferstein Silke
Abstract excerpt
The sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) is one of the leading causes of postneonatal infant death. It has been shown that there exists a complex relationship between SIDS and inherited cardiac disease. Next-generation sequencing and surveillance of cardiac channelopathy and cardiomyopathy genes represent an important tool for investigating the cause of death in SIDS cases. In the present study, targeted...
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