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Somatic mosaicism for partial paternal isodisomy in Wiedemann-Beckwith syndrome: a post-fertilization event.
European journal of human genetics : EJHG - 1 Jan 1993
Henry I, Puech A, Riesewijk A, Ahnine L, Mannens M, Beldjord C, Bitoun P, Tournade M F, Landrieu P, Junien C
Abstract excerpt
Genomic imprinting has been implicated in the aetiology of an overgrowth cancer-prone syndrome, the Wiedemann-Beck-with syndrome (WBS). We have demonstrated uniparental disomy (UPD) for paternal chromosome 11p markers in 5 out of 25 sporadic cases (20%). Delineation of the extent of the disomy region may help in understanding the mechanism and the stage, meiotic or mitotic, of disomy formation in this disease and...
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