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Somatic mosaic activating mutations in PIK3CA cause CLOVES syndrome.
American journal of human genetics - 8 Jun 2012
Kurek Kyle C, Luks Valerie L, Ayturk Ugur M, Alomari Ahmad I, Fishman Steven J, Spencer Samantha A, Mulliken John B, Bowen Margot E, Yamamoto Guilherme L, Kozakewich Harry P W, Warman Matthew L
Abstract excerpt
Congenital lipomatous overgrowth with vascular, epidermal, and skeletal anomalies (CLOVES) is a sporadically occurring, nonhereditary disorder characterized by asymmetric somatic hypertrophy and anomalies in multiple organs. We hypothesized that CLOVES syndrome would be caused by a somatic mutation arising during early embryonic development. Therefore, we employed massively parallel sequencing to search for...
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