Sustained endocrine profiles of a girl with WAGR syndrome

• Main Authors: Yui Takada (Author), Yasunari Sakai (Author), Yuki Matsushita (Author), Kazuhiro Ohkubo (Author), Yuhki Koga (Author), Satoshi Akamine (Author), Michiko Torio (Author), Yoshito Ishizaki (Author), Masafumi Sanefuji (Author), Hiroyuki Torisu (Author), Chad A. Shaw (Author), Masayo Kagami (Author), Toshiro Hara (Author), Shouichi Ohga (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2017-10-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Wilms tumor, aniridia, genitourinary anomalies and mental retardation (WAGR) syndrome is a rare genetic disorder caused by heterozygous deletions of WT1 and PAX6 at chromosome 11p13. Deletion of BDNF is known eto be associated with hyperphagia and obesity in both humans and anima...