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New Possible SIDS Genes Identified

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the sudden-discoveries dept.

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."

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  2. The presence of strange white fibers... by pla · · Score: -1, Troll

    The presence of strange white fibers, also knowns as "poly-fill" in the other 98% of cases leads researchers to the much more obvious conclusion...

    I would say the majority of SIDS cases represent nothing more than the combination of a social stigma against medical abortion and the standard primate behavior of performing "fourth trimester" abortions via suffocation.

    Doesn't take a genius... Pillow over face, baby lacks the muscle strength in the first week or so to thrash around leaving any evidence of a struggle, baby suffocates. Nothing to see here, move along. Good of these researchers to keep up the "plausible deniability" facade (even if only in a whopping 2% of cases), though.