Thomas Eggermann, David Monk, Guiomar Perez de Nanclares, Masayo Kagami, Eloïse Giabicani, Andrea Riccio, Zeynep Tümer, Jennifer M Kalish, Maithé Tauber, Jessica Duis, Rosanna Weksberg, Eamonn R Maher, Matthias Begemann, Miriam Elbracht
Imprinting disorders (ImpDis) are congenital conditions that are characterized by disturbances of genomic imprinting. The most common individual ImpDis are Prader-Willi syndrome, Angelman syndrome and Beckwith-Wiedemann syndrome. Individual ImpDis have similar clinical features, such as growth disturbances and developmental delay, but the disorders are heterogeneous and the key clinical manifestations are often non-specific, rendering diagnosis difficult. Four types of genomic and imprinting defect (ImpDef) affecting differentially methylated regions (DMRs) can cause ImpDis...
June 29, 2023: Nature Reviews. Disease Primers