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Paternal Hemizygosity in 11p15 in Mole-like Conceptuses: Two Case Reports.
Medicine - 1 Nov 2015
Sunde Lone, Lund Helle, J Sebire Neil, Grove Anni, Fisher Rosemary A, Niemann Isa, Kjeldsen Eigil, Andreasen Lotte, Hansen Estrid Staehr, Bojesen Anders, Bolund Lars, Nyegaard Mette
Abstract excerpt
Hydatidiform mole is an abnormal human pregnancy characterized by the fetus being absent or nonviable, and the chorionic villi being vesicular and with trophoblastic hyperplasia. Most often, the mole phenotype is seen in conceptuses with an excess of paternally inherited genome set(s) relative to maternally inherited genome set(s), suggesting that the phenotype is caused by an excess of genome with a paternal...
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