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Epigenetic alterations of H19 and LIT1 distinguish patients with Beckwith-Wiedemann syndrome with cancer and birth defects.
American journal of human genetics - 1 Mar 2002
DeBaun Michael R, Niemitz Emily L, McNeil D Elizabeth, Brandenburg Sheri A, Lee Maxwell P, Feinberg Andrew P
Abstract excerpt
Beckwith-Wiedemann syndrome (BWS) is a congenital cancer-predisposition syndrome associated with embryonal cancers, macroglossia, macrosomia, ear pits or ear creases, and midline abdominal-wall defects. The most common constitutional abnormalities in BWS are epigenetic, involving abnormal methylation of either H19 or LIT1, which encode untranslated RNAs on 11p15. We hypothesized that different epigenetic...
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