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Causal somatic mutations in urine DNA from persons with the CLOVES subgroup of the PIK3CA-related overgrowth spectrum.
Clinical genetics - 1 May 2018
Michel M E, Konczyk D J, Yeung K S, Murillo R, Vivero M P, Hall A M, Zurakowski D, Adams D, Gupta A, Huang A Y, Chung B H Y, Warman M L
Abstract excerpt
Congenital lipomatous overgrowth with vascular, epidermal, and skeletal (CLOVES) anomalies and Klippel-Trenaunay (KTS) syndromes are caused by somatic gain-of-function mutations in PIK3CA, encoding a catalytic subunit of phosphoinositide 3-kinase. Affected tissue is needed to find mutations, as mutant alleles are not detectable in blood. Because some patients with CLOVES develop Wilms tumor, we tested urine as a...
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