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Nephroblastomatosis or Wilms tumor in a fourth patient with a somatic PIK3CA mutation.
American journal of medical genetics. Part A - 1 Oct 2016
Gripp Karen W, Baker Laura, Kandula Vinay, Conard Katrina, Scavina Mena, Napoli Joseph A, Griffin Gregory C, Thacker Mihir, Knox Rachel G, Clark Graeme R, Parker Victoria E R, Semple Robert, Mirzaa Ghayda, Keppler-Noreuil Kim M
Abstract excerpt
Wilms tumor and nephroblastomatosis are associated with syndromic conditions including hemihyperplasia. Hemihyperplasia is genetically heterogeneous and may be the result of genomic abnormalities seen in Beckwith-Wiedemann syndrome, mosaic chromosome or genomic abnormalities, or somatic point mutations. Somatic missense mutations affecting the PI3K-AKT-MTOR pathway result in segmental overgrowth and are present...
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