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Hepatoblastoma in a child with a paternally-inherited ABCC8 mutation and mosaic paternal uniparental disomy 11p causing focal congenital hyperinsulinism.
European journal of medical genetics - 1 Feb 2013
Calton Elizabeth A, Temple I Karen, Mackay Deborah J G, Lever Margaret, Ellard Sian, Flanagan Sarah E, Davies Justin H, Hussain Khalid, Gray Juliet C
Abstract excerpt
Hepatoblastoma is a tumour of early childhood occurring in association with genetic syndromes including Beckwith-Wiedemann Syndrome (BWS) which results from dominance of paternally-inherited genes on chromosome 11p15. We report a child without clinical BWS, neonatally diagnosed with focal congenital hyperinsulinism resulting from a paternally-inherited recessively-acting mutation of ABCC8 and pancreatic paternal...
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