Abstract

In the December 2014 issue of Europace , Wong and Behr1 published a review on the role of undiagnosed inherited cardiac conditions in sudden unexplained death in infants and children, which I read with great interest. In their Table 1, Wong and Behr1 provide the reader with data on the frequency of mutations in ion channel-related genes in cases of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS). For example, a frequency of 1.0% is listed for mutations in the KCNQ1 gene, with reference to three studies on cohorts of SIDS cases (their references 30–32, which I cannot repeat here because of the restrictions …

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