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Rare Disease Day 2015

Today is Rare Disease Day! The main objective of Rare Disease Day is to raise awareness amongst the general public and decision-makers about rare diseases and their impact on patients’ lives. Bohring-Opitz syndrome is a rare genetic condition. Up to date worldwide there are only 35 cases reported. When a child is diagnosed with this syndrome,…

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Wilms tumor and BOS

At the 64th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Human Genetics on October 18-22, 2014, in San Diego, CA present Russel, B. et al. five previously unpublished patients with mutations in ASXL1. “With the occurrence of bilateral Wilms tumor in one of the patients, screening renal ultrasounds were recommended to the other patients. This led to the…

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