The search on an ideal disease marker for childhood obstructive sleep apnea syndrome

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Tat-Kong Wong. Sleep. 2011.

. 2011 Feb 1;34(2):133-4.

doi: 10.1093/sleep/34.2.133.

¹ Paediatric Sleep Centre, Hong Kong Sanatorium Hospital, 36 Queen’s Road Central, Hong Kong SAR, China. wongtk@graduate.hku.hk

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Peripheral blood leukocyte gene expression patterns and metabolic parameters in habitually snoring and non-snoring children with normal polysomnographic findings.
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