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Coexistence of Mosaic Uniparental Isodisomy and a KCNJ11 Mutation Presenting as Diffuse Congenital Hyperinsulinism and Hemihypertrophy.
Hormone research in paediatrics - 1 Jan 2016
Kocaay Pınar, Şiklar Zeynep, Ellard Sian, Yagmurlu Aydın, Çamtosun Emine, Erden Esra, Berberoglu Merih, Flanagan Sarah E
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Isolated hyperinsulinaemic hypoglycaemia (HH) commonly results from recessively inherited mutations in the ABCC8 and KCNJ11 genes that are located on chromosome 11p15.1. More rarely, HH can feature in patients with Beckwith-Wiedemann syndrome (BWS), a congenital overgrowth disorder, resulting from defects at a differentially methylated region telomeric to the K-ATP channel genes at chromosome 11p15.5....
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