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Prenatal diagnosis of CLOVES syndrome confirmed by detection of a mosaic PIK3CA mutation in cultured amniocytes.
American journal of medical genetics. Part A - 1 Oct 2014
Emrick Lisa T, Murphy Lauren, Shamshirsaz Alireza A, Ruano Rodrigo, Cassady Christopher I, Liu Liu, Chang Fengqi, Sutton V Reid, Li Marilyn, Van den Veyver Ignatia B
Abstract excerpt
Congenital lipomatous asymmetric overgrowth of the trunk, lymphatic, capillary, venous, and combined-type vascular malformations, epidermal nevi, skeletal and spinal anomalies (CLOVES) syndrome, a segmental overgrowth syndrome, is caused by post zygotic somatic mutations in PIK3CA, a gene involved in the receptor tyrosine kinase phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase (PI3)-AKT growth-signaling pathway. Prenatal ultrasound...
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