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Original Article

Sudden unexpected death in infancy in Denmark

Bo Gregers Winkel The Danish National Research Foundation Centre for Cardiac Arrhythmia (DARC), Copenhagen, Denmark; Laboratory of Molecular Cardiology, Department of Cardiology, The Heart Centre, Copenhagen University Hospital Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, DenmarkCorrespondence[email protected]
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Anders Gaarsdal Holst The Danish National Research Foundation Centre for Cardiac Arrhythmia (DARC), Copenhagen, Denmark; Laboratory of Molecular Cardiology, Department of Cardiology, The Heart Centre, Copenhagen University Hospital Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark
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Juliane Theilade The Danish National Research Foundation Centre for Cardiac Arrhythmia (DARC), Copenhagen, Denmark; Laboratory of Molecular Cardiology, Department of Cardiology, The Heart Centre, Copenhagen University Hospital Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark
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Ingrid Bayer Kristensen Department of Forensic Medicine, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
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Jørgen Lange Thomsen Department of Forensic Medicine, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark
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Steen Holger Hansen Department of Forensic Medicine, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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Jesper Hastrup Svendsen The Danish National Research Foundation Centre for Cardiac Arrhythmia (DARC), Copenhagen, Denmark; Laboratory of Molecular Cardiology, Department of Cardiology, The Heart Centre, Copenhagen University Hospital Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark; Department of Medicine and Surgery, Faculty of Health Science, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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Stig Haunsø The Danish National Research Foundation Centre for Cardiac Arrhythmia (DARC), Copenhagen, Denmark; Laboratory of Molecular Cardiology, Department of Cardiology, The Heart Centre, Copenhagen University Hospital Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark; Department of Medicine and Surgery, Faculty of Health Science, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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Jacob Tfelt-Hansen The Danish National Research Foundation Centre for Cardiac Arrhythmia (DARC), Copenhagen, Denmark; Laboratory of Molecular Cardiology, Department of Cardiology, The Heart Centre, Copenhagen University Hospital Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark
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Pages 14-20 | Received 05 Aug 2010, Accepted 03 Nov 2010, Published online: 06 Dec 2010

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