PHOX2B polyalanine repeat length is associated with sudden infant death syndrome and unclassified sudden infant death in the Dutch population

International Journal of Legal Medicine

Volumn 128, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 621-629

  Liebrechts Akkerman, Germaine ^a   Liu, Fan ^a   Lao, Oscar ^a   Ooms, Ariadne H A G ^a   Van Duijn, Kate ^a,c   Vermeulen, Mark ^a,d   Jaddoe, Vincent W ^a   Hofman, Albert ^a   Engelberts, Adèle C ^b   Kayser, Manfred ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b Sittard Geleen Heerlen   (Netherlands)

^c LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^d Department of Paediatrics Erasmus MC University Medical Center Rotterdam ^*  (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Autonomic nervous system, ANS; Congenital central hypoventilation syndrome, CCHS; Genetic association; PHOX2B polyalanine repeat length; SNPs, single nucleotide polymorphisms; Sudden infant death syndrome, SIDS; Unexplained sudden infant death, USID

Indexed keywords

HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; NBPHOX PROTEIN; PEPTIDE; POLYALANINE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

CASE CONTROL STUDY; EXON; FEMALE; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; NETHERLANDS; NEWBORN; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SUDDEN INFANT DEATH SYNDROME;

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; EXONS; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; NETHERLANDS; PEPTIDES; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SUDDEN INFANT DEATH; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 84904385326     PISSN: 09379827     EISSN: 14371596     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00414-013-0962-0     Document Type: Article

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