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ArticleCancers2023

Occurrence of Hepatoblastomas in Patients with Beckwith-Wiedemann Spectrum (BWSp).

Steven D Klein, Madison DeMarchis, Rebecca L Linn, Suzanne P MacFarland, Jennifer M Kalish

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Article in Cancers, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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12citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

12 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 15 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Multiancestry Transcriptome-Wide Association Study Identifies Candidate Genes Associated with Hepatoblastoma.Cancer epidemiology, biomarkers & prevention : a publication of the American Association for Cancer Research, cosponsored by the American Society of Preventive Oncology · 2025
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  8. Hepatoblastoma.Nature reviews. Disease primers · 2025
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  11. Update on Surveillance for Wilms Tumor and Hepatoblastoma in Beckwith-Wiedemann Syndrome and Other Predisposition Syndromes.Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research · 2024
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Steven D KleinDivision of Human Genetics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-8634-0388
Madison DeMarchisDivision of Human Genetics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA.
Rebecca L LinnDepartment of Pathology and Lab Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA.
Suzanne P MacFarlandDepartment of Pediatrics, Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA.
Jennifer M KalishDivision of Human Genetics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-1500-9713
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia · US

Funding

Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation 105-19
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Patients with Beckwith-Wiedemann syndrome (BWS), an epigenetic imprinting disorder involving alterations in genes at the 11p15 chromosomal location, are predisposed to develop hepatoblastomas (HBs), which are rare embryonal liver tumors. Tumors can develop after a BWS diagnosis or, conversely, can be the presenting feature leading to a subsequent diagnosis. While HBs are the cardinal tumors of BWS, not all patients with the BWS spectrum will develop HBs. This observation has led to many hypotheses, including genotype-associated risk, tissue mosaicism, and tumor-specific second hits. To explore these hypotheses, we present the largest cohort of patients with BWS and HBs to date. Our cohort comprised 16 cases, and we broadened our sample size by searching the literature for all cases of BWS with HBs. From these isolated case studies, we amassed another 34 cases, bringing the total number to 50 cases of BWS-HB. We observed that paternal uniparental isodisomy (upd(11)pat) was the most common genotype, representing 38% of cases. The next most common genotype was IC2 LOM, representing 14% of cases. Five patients had clinical BWS without a molecular diagnosis. To investigate the potential mechanism of HBs in BWS, we analyzed normal liver and HB samples from eight cases and isolated tumor samples from another two cases. These samples underwent methylation testing, and 90% of our tumor samples underwent targeted cancer next-generation sequencing (NGS) panels. These matched samples provided novel insights into the oncogenesis of HBs in BWS. We found that 100% of the HBs that underwent NGS panel testing had variants in the

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Beckwith–Wiedemann syndrome (BWS)hepatoblastomamethylation

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PMID37174013
PMCPMC10177446
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