Disease Score gda Association Type Type Original DB Sentence supporting the association PMID PMID Year
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Disease: Beckwith-Wiedemann Syndrome
Beckwith-Wiedemann Syndrome
0.600 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE We found that 22 cases in a large cohort of patients affected by Beckwith-Wiedemann syndrome (BWS) had IC1 methylated on both parental chromosomes, resulting in biallelic activation of IGF2 and biallelic silencing of H19. 19293570 2009
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Disease: Beckwith-Wiedemann Syndrome
Beckwith-Wiedemann Syndrome
0.600 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE The only known mutations associated with BWS are maternally transmitted translocations, which are clustered in two locations centrometric to IGF2. 8968759 1996
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Disease: Beckwith-Wiedemann Syndrome
Beckwith-Wiedemann Syndrome
0.600 PosttranslationalModification disease BEFREE Extensive investigation of the IGF2/H19 imprinting control region reveals novel OCT4/SOX2 binding site defects associated with specific methylation patterns in Beckwith-Wiedemann syndrome. 24916376 2014
CUI: C0004903
Disease: Beckwith-Wiedemann Syndrome
Beckwith-Wiedemann Syndrome
0.600 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE We show here that only the paternally-inherited IGF2 allele is transcriptionally active in the index patient of one family with inherited BWS. 7957404 1994
CUI: C0004903
Disease: Beckwith-Wiedemann Syndrome
Beckwith-Wiedemann Syndrome
0.600 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE This study defines one or more gene loci for BWS on 11p15.5 in the genomic region from D11S12 to IGF2. 8518793 1993
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Disease: Beckwith-Wiedemann Syndrome
Beckwith-Wiedemann Syndrome
0.600 Biomarker disease CTD_human These phenotypes establish Igf2 overexpression as a key determinant of Beckwith-Wiedemann syndrome. 9349812 1997
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Disease: Beckwith-Wiedemann Syndrome
Beckwith-Wiedemann Syndrome
0.600 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE BWS is genetically heterogeneous and epigenetic changes in the IGF2/H19 genes resulting in overexpression of IGF2 have been implicated in many cases. 10424811 1999
CUI: C0004903
Disease: Beckwith-Wiedemann Syndrome
Beckwith-Wiedemann Syndrome
0.600 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE In order to screen for other genetic predispositions to BWS, the conserved sequences between human and mouse differentially methylated regions (DMRs) of the IGF2 gene were analyzed for variants. 14645199 2004
CUI: C0004903
Disease: Beckwith-Wiedemann Syndrome
Beckwith-Wiedemann Syndrome
0.600 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE By analysing the methylation pattern at the IGF2-H19 locus together with the clinical phenotypes in the individuals with maternal and those with paternal transmission of five different deletions, we demonstrate that maternal transmission of 1.4-1.8 kb deletions in the IC1 region co-segregates with the hypermethylation of the residual CTSs and BWS phenotype with complete penetrance, whereas normal phenotype is observed upon paternal transmission. 17158821 2007
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Disease: Beckwith-Wiedemann Syndrome
Beckwith-Wiedemann Syndrome
0.600 Biomarker disease BEFREE The results clarify and extend previous findings concerning human prenatal IGF2 expression and are consistent with a short range overstimulatory role of locally produced IGF II ensuing after the first trimester in the Beckwith-Wiedemann syndrome. 7943172 1994
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Disease: Beckwith-Wiedemann Syndrome
Beckwith-Wiedemann Syndrome
0.600 Biomarker disease BEFREE These results indicate that in BWS, (1) H19 imprinting alterations are less frequent than previously estimated, (2) IGF2 imprinting and H19 imprinting are not necessarily coordinated, and (3) alterations in regional replication timing are generally not correlated with either chromosomal rearrangements or the imprinting status of IGF2 and H19. 10857747 2000
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Disease: Beckwith-Wiedemann Syndrome
Beckwith-Wiedemann Syndrome
0.600 Biomarker disease GENOMICS_ENGLAND
CUI: C0004903
Disease: Beckwith-Wiedemann Syndrome
Beckwith-Wiedemann Syndrome
0.600 PosttranslationalModification disease BEFREE Here, we have generated and characterized a mouse model that mimics BWS microdeletions to define the role of the deleted sequence in establishing and maintaining epigenetic marks and imprinted expression at the H19/IGF2 locus. 24990148 2014
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Disease: Beckwith-Wiedemann Syndrome
Beckwith-Wiedemann Syndrome
0.600 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE The relevant imprinted chromosomal region in BWS is 11p15.5, which consists of two imprinting domains, IGF2/H19 and CDKN1C/KCNQ1OT1. 23719190 2013
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Disease: Beckwith-Wiedemann Syndrome
Beckwith-Wiedemann Syndrome
0.600 Biomarker disease BEFREE Expression of a high molecular weight form of insulin-like growth factor II in a Beckwith-Wiedemann syndrome associated adrenocortical adenoma. 7621447 1995
CUI: C0004903
Disease: Beckwith-Wiedemann Syndrome
Beckwith-Wiedemann Syndrome
0.600 Biomarker disease BEFREE In contrast to previous reports in which imprinting of the growth stimulator gene, IGF2, has been invoked as the mechanism explaining sporadic cases of BWS (especially in situations where uniparental disomy and trisomy of the 11p15.5 region has occurred), it is suggested that paternal imprinting of a growth suppressor gene, e.g., H19, may be one of the causes of familial BWS. 8055321 1993
CUI: C0004903
Disease: Beckwith-Wiedemann Syndrome
Beckwith-Wiedemann Syndrome
0.600 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE In Wiedemann-Beckwith syndrome (WBS) a putative disease gene resides at the tip of the short arm of chromosome 11 in the region of the insulin growth like factor II (IGF-II) gene. 1356785 1992
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Disease: Beckwith-Wiedemann Syndrome
Beckwith-Wiedemann Syndrome
0.600 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE The association of a chromosome 18 deletion and BWS may be coincidental or may indicate the location of a trans activating regulator element for maintenance of IGF2 imprinting. 9507400 1998
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Disease: Beckwith-Wiedemann Syndrome
Beckwith-Wiedemann Syndrome
0.600 Biomarker disease BEFREE These mutations result in the hypermethylation of the remaining IC1 region, loss of IGF2/H19 imprinting and fully penetrant BWS phenotype when maternally transmitted. 18245780 2008
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Disease: Beckwith-Wiedemann Syndrome
Beckwith-Wiedemann Syndrome
0.600 Biomarker disease BEFREE The genes encoding insulin and insulin-like growth factor II (IGF-II), proteins that affect cellular growth and pancreatic function, have been mapped to 11p15, and their increased expression might, thus, account for the physical features of BWS. 3529947 1986
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Disease: Beckwith-Wiedemann Syndrome
Beckwith-Wiedemann Syndrome
0.600 Biomarker disease BEFREE Paternal heterodisomy was excluded for all BWS patients with biallelic expression, suggesting strongly that the BWS phenotype in some patients involves disruption of IGF2 imprinting. 8252039 1993
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Disease: Beckwith-Wiedemann Syndrome
Beckwith-Wiedemann Syndrome
0.600 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Recently, we showed that a subgroup of BWS patients have loss of methylation (LOM) at a differentially methylated region (KvDMR1) within the KCNQ1 gene centromeric to the IGF2 and H19 genes. 11106355 2000
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Disease: Beckwith-Wiedemann Syndrome
Beckwith-Wiedemann Syndrome
0.600 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Loss of imprinting at IGF2, generally through an H19-independent mechanism, is associated with a large percentage of patients with the overgrowth and cancer predisposition condition Beckwith-Wiedemann syndrome (BWS). 10393948 1999
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Disease: Beckwith-Wiedemann Syndrome
Beckwith-Wiedemann Syndrome
0.600 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE Alterations of the imprinting control region 1 (ICR1) at the IGF2/H19 locus resulting in biallelic expression of IGF2 and biallelic silencing of H19 account for approximately 10% of patients with BWS. 25943194 2015
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Disease: Beckwith-Wiedemann Syndrome
Beckwith-Wiedemann Syndrome
0.600 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Genetic lesions at chromosome 11p15 have been associated with Beck-Wiedemann syndrome and Wilms' tumour for several years and the presence of the gene encoding insulin-like growth factor-II (IGF-II) in this region has given rise to much speculation over the involvement of this factor in these growth defects. 9239720 1997