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SUBMITTER: Geuns E
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2598054 | biostudies-literature | 2007 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Geuns Elke E Hilven Pierre P Van Steirteghem André A Liebaers Inge I De Rycke Martine M
Journal of medical genetics 20060901 2
Recently, several reports have been published that showed a higher incidence of assisted reproductive technologies (ART) in patients with Beckwith-Wiedemann syndrome compared with the general population, and in most of these patients, aberrant methylation imprints of KvDMR1 have been found. This has led to the concern that ART might increase the incidence of imprinting syndromes such as Beckwith-Wiedemann syndrome. Not much is known on environmental or genetic factors that may interfere with the ...[more]