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Allelic methylation of H19 and IGF2 in the Beckwith-Wiedemann syndrome.
Human molecular genetics - 1 Aug 1994
Reik W, Brown K W, Slatter R E, Sartori P, Elliott M, Maher E R
Abstract excerpt
Beckwith-Wiedemann syndrome (BWS) is a congenital overgrowth syndrome with associated embryonal tumours. Most BWS cases are sporadic but familial cases occur in 15% of patients and in these there is linkage to chromosome 11p15. In addition, a small number of patients have cytogenetic abnormalities involving chromosome 11p15. Approximately 20% of sporadic BWS patients have uniparental paternal disomy (UPD) of...
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