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SUBMITTER: Barker KT
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2564558 | biostudies-literature | 2006 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Barker K T KT Foulkes W D WD Schwartz C E CE Labadie C C Monsell F F Houlston R S RS Harper J J
Journal of medical genetics 20060127 7
<h4>Background</h4>It has been reported that the activating mutation, E133K, in the angiogenic factor VG5Q (formally named AGGF1) causes Klippel-Trenaunay Syndrome (KTS), a rare vascular disease associated with asymmetric overgrowth. This proposal followed from the observation that five out of 130 KTS patients were constitutionally heterozygous for VG5Q, E133K.<h4>Objective</h4>To explore the possibility that VG5Q, and specifically E133K, is implicated in other mosaic overgrowth syndromes.<h4>Re ...[more]