New Possible SIDS Genes Identified

ScienceDaily is reporting that researchers at the Mayo Clinic have identified two more cardiac genes that could contribute to sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS). From the article: "In the two recent separate studies, researchers examined caveolin-3 (CAV3) and the cardiac ryanodine receptor (RyR2) and found molecular and functional evidence in both to implicate them as SIDS-susceptibility genes. Researchers examined the tissue of 135 unrelated cases of SIDS -- in infants with an average age of 3 months old -- that had been referred to Mayo Clinic's Sudden Death Genomics Laboratory for molecular autopsy. In each study, two of the 135 cases possessed mutations in either CAV3 or RyR2."

Comments

Possibilities..

[aero2600-5]

Have they tried researching culling songs yet?

Aero

Re:Seems an odd gene to still exist

[Bacon Bits]

Mutant powers in comic books:

• fast healing
• laser beam eyes
• teleportation
• control over weather

Mutant powers in real life:

• Early death (SIDS)
• Ability to grow useless diseased lumps of tissue (cancer)
• Impaired mental abilities (Down Syndrome)

This just doesn't seem fair.

That's fine and all...

[Valar]

but as a bachelor, I feel that we, as a society, should be confronting an altogether different problem-- SIBS, or Sudden Infant Birth Syndrome. ...

Then again, it seems like most people here are doing their part for the cause.