Association of the CPT1A p.P479L Metabolic Gene Variant With Childhood Respiratory and Other Infectious Illness in Nunavut

• Main Authors: Sorcha A. Collins (Author), Sharon Edmunds (Author), Gwen Healey Akearok (Author), J. Robert Thompson (Author), Anders C. Erickson (Author), Elske Hildes-Ripstein (Author), Amber Miners (Author), Martin Somerville (Author), David M. Goldfarb (Author), Cheryl Rockman-Greenberg (Author), Laura Arbour (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Frontiers Media S.A., 2021-07-01T00:00:00Z.
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Objective: Infectious illness, including lower respiratory tract infection (LRTI), is a leading cause of childhood morbidity and infant mortality in Inuit children in Nunavut Canada. The carnitine palmitoyltransferase 1A (CPT1A) p.P479L variant is common in arctic Indigenous populations of Alaska, C...