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SUBMITTER: Kimura R
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6131482 | biostudies-literature | 2018
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Kimura Ryo R Ishii Yuko Y Tomiwa Kiyotaka K Awaya Tomonari T Nakata Masatoshi M Kato Takeo T Okazaki Shin S Heike Toshio T Hagiwara Masatoshi M
Frontiers in genetics 20180904
Williams-Beuren syndrome (WBS) is a multisystemic neurodevelopmental disorder caused by a hemizygous deletion on chromosome 7q11.23. Though at present there is a limited number of reports on WBS patients with tumors, most cases are related to blood cancer in children with WBS. We describe a case of Burkitt lymphoma in a 21-year-old man with WBS. In addition to providing a summary of published reports describing tumors observed in patients with WBS, we present a hypothesis about a possible mechan ...[more]