CMAJ June 20, 2006; 174 (13). doi:10.1503/cmaj.051671.
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Sudden infant death syndrome
Carl E. Hunt and
Fern R. Hauck
From the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (Hunt), Bethesda, Md., and the Departments of Family Medicine and Public Health Sciences, University of Virginia (Hauck), Charlottesville, Va.

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Fig. 1: Schematic summary of potential interactions between environmental and genetic risk factors for sudden unexpected death in infancy and sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS). The clinical consequences (phenotype) are not known for the autonomic nervous system and serotonin transporter (5-HTT) polymorphisms. Adapted from Hunt.70
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