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ArticleJournal of genetics2009

A case of Silver-Russell syndrome (SRS): multiple pituitary hormone deficiency, lack of H19 hypomethylation and favourable growth hormone (GH) treatment response.

Zoran S Gucev, Velibor Tasic, Aleksandra Jancevska, Ilija Kirovski

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Article in Journal of genetics, 2009. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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4 citing papers in PubMed, 8 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Primordial dwarfism: overview of clinical and genetic aspects.Molecular genetics and genomics : MGG · 2016
    Review
  2. Clinical spectrum of Silver - Russell syndrome.Contemporary clinical dentistry · 2013
    Article
  3. Environmental chemical exposures and human epigenetics.International journal of epidemiology · 2012
    Article
  4. Renal agenesis in a child with ipsilateral hemihypertrophy.Pediatric nephrology (Berlin, Germany) · 2010
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4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Zoran S GucevMedical Faculty Skopje, 50 Divizija BB, 1000 Skopje, Republic of Macedonia. gucevz@gmail.com
Velibor Tasic
Aleksandra Jancevska
Ilija Kirovski
Saints Cyril and Methodius University of Skopje · MKPHI University Psychiatric Clinic - Skopje · MK

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Hypomethylation of the imprinting control region 1 (ICR1) at the IGF2/H19 locus on 11p15 is linked to Silver-Russell syndrome (SRS) and/or hemihypertrophy. This SRS patient was born in term with weight of 3500 g (50 percentile) and length 48 cm (1 SD below the mean). He was first noticed at the age of 10 years for short stature (114.5 cm, -3.85 SD), relatively normal head circumference, a classic facial phenotype, hemihypertrophy (2.5 cm thinner left arm and leg in comparison to the right, asymmetric face), moderate clinodactyly and striking thinness (BMI of 15.3). At the age of 30, the body asymmetry ameliorated (1 cm thinner left arm and leg than the right), and BMI normalized (20.5 cm). Methylation analysis was performed by bisulphate treatment of DNA samples, radiolabelled PCR amplification, and digestion of the PCR products using restriction enzymes. The patient had normomethylation, and in addition hypopituitarism, with low levels of growth hormone (GH) (provocative testing before the start and after termination of GH treatment), thyroxin, TSH, FSH, LH and testosterone. The GH was given for six years, growth response was satisfactory and he reached an adult height of 166 cm. This is a first report of hypopituitarism in a patient with SRS without H19 hypomethylation. It seems that the lack of hypomethylation in this hypopituitary SRS patient is responsible, at least partly, for the favourable final adult height under GH treatment.

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Abnormalities, MultipleBase SequenceDNA MethylationDNA PrimersGrowth HormoneHumansInfantMalePolymerase Chain ReactionRNA, Long NoncodingRNA, UntranslatedSyndromeDNA PrimersGrowth HormoneH19 long non-coding RNARNA, Long NoncodingRNA, Untranslated

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