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SUBMITTER: Everett KV
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2427303 | biostudies-literature | 2008 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Everett Kate V KV Chioza Barry A BA Georgoula Christina C Reece Ashley A Capon Francesca F Parker Keith A KA Cord-Udy Cathy C McKeigue Paul P Mitton Sally S Pierro Agostino A Puri Prem P Mitchison Hannah M HM Chung Eddie M K EM Gardiner R Mark RM
American journal of human genetics 20080228 3
Infantile hypertrophic pyloric stenosis (IHPS) has an incidence of 1-8 per 1000 live births and is inherited as a complex sex-modified multifactorial trait with a striking male preponderance. Syndromic and monogenic forms exist, and two loci have been identified. Infants present with vomiting due to gastric-outlet obstruction caused by hypertrophy of the smooth muscle of the pylorus. A genome-wide SNP-based high-density linkage scan was carried out on 81 IHPS pedigrees. Nonparametric and paramet ...[more]