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Molecular Diagnosis of Mosaic Overgrowth Syndromes Using a Custom-Designed Next-Generation Sequencing Panel.
The Journal of molecular diagnostics : JMD - 1 Jul 2017
Chang Fengqi, Liu Liu, Fang Erica, Zhang Guangcheng, Chen Tiansheng, Cao Kajia, Li Yanchun, Li Marilyn M
Abstract excerpt
Recent studies have discovered a group of overgrowth syndromes, such as congenital lipomatous overgrowth with vascular, epidermal, and skeletal anomalies (CLOVES) syndrome, Proteus syndrome, and megalencephaly-capillary malformation-polymicrogyria (MCAP) syndrome, are caused by somatic activating variants in genes involved in the phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase/AKT/mechanistic target of rapamycin pathway. Because...
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