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A major imprinted gene involved in hydatidiform mole is not located in 2q31.2-qter or 5q34-qter.
Gene - 15 Apr 2012
Lund Helle, Nyegaard Mette, Svarrer Tove, Grove Anni, Sunde Lone
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INTRODUCTION: Hydatidiform mole is an abnormal human pregnancy, characterised by absent or abnormal embryonic differentiation, vesicular chorionic villi and trophoblastic hyperplasia. Although the mole phenotype has hereto not been correlated to mutations in the molar genome, the aetiology for hydatidiform moles clearly is genetic: Most molar genomes analysed either have had a relative excess of paternal genome...
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