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Recurrent giant cell fibroblastoma: Malignancy predisposition in Kabuki syndrome revisited.
American journal of medical genetics. Part A - 1 May 2016
Karagianni Paraskevi, Lambropoulos Vassilios, Stergidou Dorothea, Fryssira Helena, Chatziioannidis Ilias, Spyridakis Ioannis
Abstract excerpt
Kabuki syndrome is a genetic condition characterized by distinctive facial phenotype, mental retardation, and internal organ malformations. Mutations of the epigenetic genes KMT2D and KDM6A cause dysregulation of certain developmental genes and account for the multiple congenital anomalies of the syndrome. Eight cases of malignancies have been reported in young patients with Kabuki syndrome although a causative...
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