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Fetiform teratoma was a parthenogenetic tumor arising from a mature ovum.
Journal of human genetics - 1 Sept 2017
Miura Kiyonori, Kurabayashi Takumi, Satoh Chisei, Sasaki Kensaku, Ishiguro Tatsuya, Yoshiura Koh-Ichiro, Masuzaki Hideaki
Abstract excerpt
The aim of this study was to investigate the parthenogenetic origin of fetiform teratoma by using molecular genetic studies and methylation status analyses. A fetiform teratoma was removed from a 35-year-old nulligravida woman. Genotyping of microsatellite marker loci, microarray analysis of single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) loci and methylation status analysis of the differentially methylated region (DMR)...
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