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Beckwith-Wiedemann syndrome.
American journal of medical genetics. Part C, Seminars in medical genetics - 15 Aug 2010
Choufani Sanaa, Shuman Cheryl, Weksberg Rosanna
Abstract excerpt
Beckwith-Wiedemann syndrome (BWS) is an imprinting disorder characterized by overgrowth, tumor predisposition, and congenital malformations. Approximately 85% of reported BWS cases are sporadic, while the remaining 15% are familial. BWS is caused by epigenetic or genomic alterations which disrupt genes in one or both of the two imprinted domains on chromosome 11p15.5. In each domain, an imprinting center...
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