H19DMR methylation analysis in patients with Beckwith-Wiedemann syndrome and isolated hemihyperplasia

Beckwith-Wiedemann syndrome (BWS) is a congenital overgrowth disorder of complex and heterogeneous etiology involving alterations in genomic imprinting. The cause of isolated hemihyperplasia (IHH) is unknown but might be due to partial or incomplete expression of BWS because both these conditions sh...

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Main Authors: Marcus Vinícius de Matos Gomes, Sílvio Avelino dos Santos, Ester Silveira Ramos
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Genética 2005-01-01
Series:Genetics and Molecular Biology
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1415-47572005000200005