Somatic overgrowth associated with overexpression of insulin-like growth factor II

Nature Medicine

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 311-316

  Morison, Ian M ^a   Becroft, David M ^b   Taniguchi, Takanobu ^a   Woods, C Geoffrey ^c   Reeve, Anthony E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^c ST JAMES S UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SOMATOMEDIN B;

ARTICLE; BECKWITH WIEDEMANN SYNDROME; BODY GROWTH; CASE REPORT; DNA METHYLATION; HUMAN; NEOPLASM; NEPHROBLASTOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BASE SEQUENCE; BECKWITH-WIEDEMANN SYNDROME; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DNA PRIMERS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOMIC IMPRINTING; GROWTH DISORDERS; HUMANS; INFANT; INSULIN-LIKE GROWTH FACTOR II; KIDNEY; KIDNEY NEOPLASMS; MALE; METHYLATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOSAICISM; MUSCLE PROTEINS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RNA, UNTRANSLATED; WILMS TUMOR;

EID: 0029939816     PISSN: 10788956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nm0396-311     Document Type: Article

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