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Article: Researchers focus on genetic mutations in autonomic nervous system.
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- Biotech Week
- Article date:
- September 8, 2004
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2004 SEP 8 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A new study has identified mutations in genes pertinent to the autonomic nervous system among babies who died of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) that might explain why they died.
Dr. Debra E. Weese-Mayer, professor of pediatrics and director of pediatric respiratory medicine at Rush University Medical Center, and colleagues at Rush and at the University of Pittsburgh conducted a case-control study in which they compared genetic material from 92 SIDS babies and 92 control subjects (who survived the first year of life and had no family history for autonomic diseases).
Her study, in the September 2004 issue of ...
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