Genetic Factors Contribute to Risk for Neonatal Respiratory Distress Syndrome Among Moderately Preterm, Late Preterm, and Term Infants

Overview

Journal J Pediatr

Specialty Pediatrics

Date 2016 Mar 4

PMID 26935785

Citations 6

Authors

Carol L Shen

Qunyuan Zhang

Julia Meyer Hudson

F Sessions Cole

Jennifer A Wambach

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Abstract

Objective: To determine the genetic contribution to risk for respiratory distress syndrome (RDS) among moderately preterm, late preterm, and term infants (estimated gestational age ≥32 weeks) of African- and European-descent.

Study Design: We reviewed clinical records for 524 consecutive twin pairs ≥32 weeks gestation. We identified pairs in which at least 1 twin had RDS (n = 225) and compared the concordance of RDS between monozygotic and dizygotic twins. Using mixed-effects logistic regression, we identified covariates that increased disease risk. We performed additive genetic, common environmental, and residual effects modeling to estimate genetic variance and used the ratio of genetic variance to total variance to estimate genetic contribution to RDS disease risk.

Results: Monozygotic twins were more concordant for RDS than dizygotic twins (P = .0040). Estimated gestational age, European-descent, male sex, delivery by cesarean, and 5-minute Apgar score each independently increased risk for RDS. After adjusting for these covariates, genetic effects accounted for 58% (P = .0002) of the RDS disease risk variance for all twin pairs.

Conclusions: In addition to environmental factors, genetic factors may contribute to RDS risk among moderately preterm, late preterm, and term infants. Discovery of risk alleles may be important for prediction and management of RDS risk.

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