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Identification of somatic chromosomal abnormalities in hypothalamic hamartoma tissue at the GLI3 locus.
American journal of human genetics - 1 Feb 2008
Craig David W, Itty Abraham, Panganiban Corrie, Szelinger Szabolcs, Kruer Michael C, Sekar Aswin, Reiman David, Narayanan Vinodh, Stephan Dietrich A, Kerrigan John F
Abstract excerpt
Hypothalamic hamartomas (HH) are rare, benign congenital tumors associated with intractable epilepsy. Most cases are sporadic and nonsyndromic. Approximately 5% of HH cases are associated with Pallister-Hall syndrome (PHS), which is caused by haploinsufficiency of GLI3. We have investigated the possibility that HH pathogenesis in sporadic cases is due to a somatic (tumor-only) mutation in GLI3. We isolated...
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