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PIK3CA Activating Mutations in Facial Infiltrating Lipomatosis
30 Dec 2013
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BACKGROUND: Facial infiltrating lipomatosis is a nonheritable disorder characterized by hemifacial soft-tissue and skeletal overgrowth, precocious dental development, macrodontia, hemimacroglossia, and mucosal neuromas. The authors tested the hypothesis that this condition is caused by a somatic mutation in the phosphatidylinositide-3 kinase (PI3K) signaling pathway, which has been indicted in other anomalies...
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