HUMAN HEAT-SHOCK PROTEIN GENE POLYMORPHISMS AND SUDDEN-INFANT-DEATH-SYNDROME

Comparison of the frequency of occurrence of restriction fragment leng th polymorphisms in control human DNAs and DNAs from infants dying fro m sudden infant death syndrome has indicated no significant difference in the case of restriction fragment length polymorphisms associated w ith the heat shock protein genes hsp70 and hsp90. A highly significant difference was detected, however, in the case of the specific restric tion fragment length polymorphisms detected by an hsp60 gene probe in MspI digests.