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Wide clinical spectrum in a family with hereditary lymphedema type I due to a novel missense mutation in VEGFR3.
Journal of human genetics - 1 Jan 2006
Spiegel Ronen, Ghalamkarpour Arash, Daniel-Spiegel Etty, Vikkula Miikka, A Shalev Stavit
Abstract excerpt
Hereditary lymphedema type I (HL-I), also known as Milroy disease, is an autosomal dominant disorder characterized by typical phenotype of infantile onset lower-limb lymphedema accompanied by variable expression of recurrent episodes of cellulites, toenail changes, and papillomatosis. Mutations in the vascular endothelial growth factor receptor 3 (VEGFR3), also known as FLT4 gene, which encodes a lymphatic...
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