In Vitro Fertilization May Increase the Risk of Beckwith-Wiedemann Syndrome Related to the Abnormal Imprinting of the KCN1OT Gene

Overview

Journal Am J Hum Genet

Publisher Cell Press

Specialty Genetics

Date 2003 May 30

PMID 12772698

Citations 110

Authors

Christine Gicquel

Veronique Gaston

Jacqueline Mandelbaum

Jean-Pierre Siffroi

Antoine Flahault

Yves Le Bouc

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