| Literature DB >> 16685657 |
Capucine Delnatte1, Damien Sanlaville, Jean-Francois Mougenot, Joris-Robert Vermeesch, Claude Houdayer, Marie-Christine de Blois, David Genevieve, Olivier Goulet, Jean-Pierre Fryns, Francis Jaubert, Michel Vekemans, Stanislas Lyonnet, Serge Romana, Charis Eng, Dominique Stoppa-Lyonnet.
Abstract
We describe four unrelated children who were referred to two tertiary referral medical genetics units between 1991 and 2005 and who are affected with juvenile polyposis of infancy. We show that these children are heterozygous for a germline deletion encompassing two contiguous genes, PTEN and BMPR1A. We hypothesize that juvenile polyposis of infancy is caused by the deletion of these two genes and that the severity of the disease reflects cooperation between these two tumor-suppressor genes.Entities:
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Year: 2006 PMID: 16685657 PMCID: PMC1474102 DOI: 10.1086/504301
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Am J Hum Genet ISSN: 0002-9297 Impact factor: 11.025