Androgenetic/Biparental Mosaic/Chimeric Conceptions With a Molar Component: A Diagnostic and Clinical Challenge
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Abstract
Hydatidiform moles (HM) are gestational trophoblastic diseases which arise due to an imbalance in genetic material and which are morphologically characterized by enlarged and irregular chorionic villi and trophoblastic hyperplasia, among other features. The morphologic differential diagnosis for HM encompasses a number of entities including androgenetic/biparental mosaic/chimeric (ABMC) conceptions, an interesting duo of lesions with a nonmolar form (placental mesenchymal dysplasia) and a molar form (typically with a complete HM component). ABMC conceptions contain a mixture of 2 cell populations (1 androgenetic and 1 biparental) and arise as a result of mosaicism (mitotic error in a zygote) or chimerism (fusion of 2 zygotes). Because of their unique molecular underpinnings, these rare lesions show a number of findings including the presence of multiple villous populations, discordant p57 immunostaining, and mixed genotypes. ABMC conceptions are important to accurately diagnose as the molar form in particular carries a risk for persistent gestational trophoblastic diseases and thus requires appropriate treatment and follow-up. In this report, we provide detailed characterizations of 2 such cases of ABMC conceptions with a molar component. Both patients (ages 34 and 31) were in the first trimester of pregnancy and had ultrasound findings concerning for HM. Increased comprehension of the pathogenesis and morphology of ABMC conceptions, combined with ancillary techniques including p57 immunohistochemistry, fluorescence in situ hybridization, and molar genotyping, has allowed us to accurately and efficiently identify these lesions. However, a number of pitfalls exist which may lead to misdiagnosis.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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