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Dyskeratosis Congenita with Pigmentary Mosaicism and Hematopoietic Trisomy 9 in a Female Associated with a de novo DKC1 Variant and Markedly Skewed X Chromosome Inactivation

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By Benilde García-de-Teresa, Tianna Zhao, Consuelo Salas-Labadía, Weiyin Zhou, Silvia Sanchez, Silvia Sánchez, Leda Torres, Raymond C. Caylor, Difei Wang, Chad A. Highfill, Maryam Rafati, Jia Liu, Mauricio Rojas, Burak Altintas, Neelam Giri, Kristine Jones, Komal Jain, Lisa J. McReynolds, Belynda D. Hicks, Sara Frías, Sharon A. Savage, Moisés Fiesco-Roa, Ulises Juárez-Figueroa, Bertha Molina, Logan P. Zeigler, Angélica Monsivais, Esther Lieberman, María de la Luz Orozco-Covarrubias
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Abstract Pathogenic germline variants (PGVs) in dyskerin pseudouridine synthase 1 (DKC1) cause X-linked recessive dyskeratosis congenita (DC), a telomere biology disorder. Females with heterozygous DKC1 PGVs rarely exhibit DC phenotypes due to favorable X chromosome inactivation (XCI).
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Methylation profiling of normal tissue adjacent to breast tumors reveals two distinct groups with divergent tumor microenvironment features

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By Hela Koka, Bin Zhu, Feng Wang, Avraam Tapinos, Mustapha Abubakar, Difei Wang, Xiaoyu Wang, Xing Hua, Chad A. Highfill, Li Feng, Tongwu Zhang, Cherry Wu, W. Chan, Sze Hong Law, Gary M Tse, Kristine Jones, Amy Hutchinson, Belynda D. Hicks, Montserrat Garcia-Closas, Stephen J. Chanock, David C. Wedge, Lap Ah Tse, Xiaohong Yang, Koon Ho Tsang, Yee-Kei Tsoi, Aurelie Vogt
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Abstract We previously identified diverse genetic evolutionary patterns in whole-genome sequencing of paired normal tissue adjacent to tumor (NAT) and tumor tissues from Hong Kong breast cancer (HKBC) patients. Here, we investigated whether DNA methylation (DNAm) contributes to NAT heterogeneity and shapes the tumor microenvironment (TME). Genome-wide DNAm profiling was performed on paired NAT and tumor tissues from 188 HKBC patients using the Infinium 850 K array.
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A genome-wide association study identifies an African-specific locus on chromosome 21q22.12 associated with Burkitt lymphoma risk and survival - Leukemia

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By Diptavo Dutta, Mateus H. Gouveia, Bryan R. Gorman, Wusheng Yan, Oscar Florez-Vargas, Michelle Ho, Ruth M Pfeiffer, Belynda D. Hicks, Robert Newton, Reiner Siebert, Michael Dean, Meredith Yeager, Stephen J. Chanock, Ludmila Prokunina-Olsson, Leona W. Ayers
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Abstract Burkitt lymphoma (BL) is a B-cell malignancy that disproportionately affects children in sub-Saharan Africa. We performed a genome-wide association study (GWAS) in a combined set of 800 childhood cases and 3865 controls in East Africa, controlling for age, sex, country, population-specific principal components, and a genetic relationship matrix.
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