Beckwith-wiedemann Syndrome; Bws

Description

Beckwith-Wiedemann syndrome is a pediatric overgrowth disorder involving a predisposition to tumor development. The clinical presentation is highly variable; some cases lack the hallmark features of exomphalos, macroglossia, and gigantism as originally described by Beckwith (1969) and Wiedemann (1969) (summary by Weksberg et al., 2010).Mussa et al. (2016) provided a review of Beckwith-Wiedemann syndrome, including the wide spectrum of phenotypic manifestations, delineation of the frequencies of manifestations according to genotype, and discussion of the molecular and epigenetic defects that underlie the disorder.

Clinical Features

Top most frequent phenotypes and symptoms related to Beckwith-wiedemann Syndrome; Bws

  • Intellectual disability
  • Global developmental delay
  • Generalized hypotonia
  • Hearing impairment
  • Hypertelorism
  • Neoplasm
  • Abnormal facial shape
  • Cleft palate
  • Pain
  • Cryptorchidism

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Incidence and onset information

— Currently we don't have prevalence information about this disease (Not enough data available about incidence and published cases.)
No data available about the known clinical features onset.

Alternative names

Beckwith-wiedemann Syndrome; Bws Is also known as emg syndrome, exomphalos-macroglossia-gigantism syndrome, wiedemann-beckwith syndrome, wbs.

Researches and researchers

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Beckwith-wiedemann Syndrome; Bws Recommended genes panels

Panel Name, Specifity and genes Tested/covered
Chromosome 11-related Beckwith-Wiedemann Syndrome.

By Clinical Molecular Genetics Laboratory Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital (United States).

H19, KCNQ1OT1
Specificity
100 %
Genes
67 %
Test for Beckwith-Wiedemann Syndrome.

By Genome Diagnostics Laboratory University Medical Center Utrecht (Netherlands).

CDKN1C, H19, KCNQ1OT1
Specificity
100 %
Genes
100 %
Test for Chromosome 11p15.5-Related Russell-Silver Syndrome.

By Genome Diagnostics Laboratory University Medical Center Utrecht (Netherlands).

H19
Specificity
100 %
Genes
34 %
Beckwith-Wiedemann Syndrome.

By Genetics Laboratory Shodair Children's Hospital (United States).

H19, KCNQ1
Specificity
50 %
Genes
34 %
Russell-Silver Syndrome.

By Genetics Laboratory Shodair Children's Hospital (United States).

H19
Specificity
100 %
Genes
34 %
Beckwith-Wiedemann Syndrome (methylation test).

By Laboratory of genome diagnostics Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam (Netherlands).

H19, KCNQ1OT1
Specificity
100 %
Genes
67 %
Silver-Russel Syndrome (11p15).

By Laboratory of genome diagnostics Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam (Netherlands).

H19
Specificity
100 %
Genes
34 %
Isolated hemihyperplasia (methylation analysis of KCNQ1OT1 and H19 genes).

By CGC Genetics (Portugal).

H19, KCNQ1OT1
Specificity
100 %
Genes
67 %

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