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SUBMITTER: Cheung YH
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3675240 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Cheung Yee Him YH Gayden Tenzin T Campeau Philippe M PM LeDuc Charles A CA Russo Donna D Nguyen Van-Hung VH Guo Jiancheng J Qi Ming M Guan Yanfang Y Albrecht Steffen S Moroz Brenda B Eldin Karen W KW Lu James T JT Schwartzentruber Jeremy J Malkin David D Berghuis Albert M AM Emil Sherif S Gibbs Richard A RA Burk David L DL Vanstone Megan M Lee Brendan H BH Orchard David D Boycott Kym M KM Chung Wendy K WK Jabado Nada N
American journal of human genetics 20130523 6
Infantile myofibromatosis (IM) is the most common benign fibrous tumor of soft tissues affecting young children. By using whole-exome sequencing, RNA sequencing, and targeted sequencing, we investigated germline and tumor DNA in individuals from four distinct families with the familial form of IM and in five simplex IM cases with no previous family history of this disease. We identified a germline mutation c.1681C>T (p.Arg561Cys) in platelet-derived growth factor receptor β (PDGFRB) in all 11 af ...[more]