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Overgrowth Syndromes Caused by Somatic Variants in the Phosphatidylinositol 3-Kinase/AKT/Mammalian Target of Rapamycin Pathway.
The Journal of molecular diagnostics : JMD - 1 Jul 2017
Akgumus Gozde, Chang Fengqi, Li Marilyn M
Abstract excerpt
Somatic variants have been well described in tumorigenesis; however, they are only recently appreciated in other human disorders, such as mosaic overgrowth syndromes. Although overgrowth is a manifestation in many genetic syndromes, not all overgrowth syndromes are inherited. Mosaic somatic variants have been lately described in several overgrowth disorders, such as Proteus syndrome, CLOVES (congenital,...
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