A study conducted in a small Amish community in Pennsylvania discovered a previously unrecognised disease that can lead to sudden infant death due to cardiac and respiratory arrest.
Joyce Epstein, director for the Foundation for the Study of Infant Deaths, said it was the first time a link between genetic material and the control of breath and heart rate had been made. "In Sudden Infant Death syndrome we know heart and breath stops, but nobody knows why - whether because the baby has died, or whether the baby dies because the heart and breath stops. If you can find the gene that has control of that you can start to understand."
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