Patients with familial biparental hydatidiform moles have normal methylation at imprinted genes
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Maternal alleles acquiring paternal methylation patterns in biparental complete hydatidiform moles.
We previously mapped a maternal locus responsible for biparental complete hydatidiform moles (BiCHMs) to 19q13.4. The two index patients had a total of 14 molar pregnancies, eight abortions at various developmental stages, and one 16-year-old healthy offspring. We suggested that the defective gene deregulates the expression of imprinted genes. Here, we report the methylation status of four impr...
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عنوان ژورنال: European Journal of Human Genetics
سال: 2005
ISSN: 1018-4813,1476-5438
DOI: 10.1038/sj.ejhg.5201353