SUDDEN INFANT DEATH SYNDROME

General Information (adopted from Orphanet):

Synonyms, Signs: SIDS
Number of Symptoms 3
OrphanetNr:
OMIM Id: 272120
ICD-10:
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Prevalence, inheritance and age of onset:

Prevalence: No data available.
Inheritance:
Age of onset:

Disease classification (adopted from Orphanet):

Parent Diseases: No data available.

Symptom Information: Sort by abundance 

1
(HPO:0005949) Apneic episodes in infancy 5 / 7739
2
(OMIM) Periodic apnea 1 / 7739
3
(HPO:0001699) Sudden death 34 / 7739

Associated genes:

ClinVar (via SNiPA)

Gene symbol Variation Clinical significance Reference

Additional Information:

Description: (OMIM) Sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) is a diagnosis of exclusion which should be made only after a thorough autopsy without identification of a specific cause of death (Mage and Donner, 2004).

Weese-Mayer et al. (2007) provided ...

Molecular genetics OMIM Opdal et al. (1999) identified 3 different point mutations in the mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) of 4 of 158 SIDS cases and in none of 97 controls. One mutation occurred in the MTTL1 gene, and the other 2 occurred ...