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Proportion of cells with paternal 11p15 uniparental disomy correlates with organ enlargement in Wiedemann-beckwith syndrome.
American journal of medical genetics - 15 May 2000
Itoh N, Becroft D M, Reeve A E, Morison I M
Abstract excerpt
"Genetic mosaicism" describes the presence of two or more populations of cells within a single individual that differ in their genomic constitution. Although the occurrence of asymmetric overgrowth in Wiedemann-Beckwith syndrome (WBS) suggests that mosaicism has some role in the WBS phenotype, no direct evidence for this has been published. WBS is a congenital overgrowth syndrome with variable phenotype linked to...
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