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Neurofibromatosis type 2: genetic and clinical features.
Ear, nose, & throat journal - 1 Feb 1999
Evans D G
Abstract excerpt
For decades, neurofibromatosis type 2 (NF2) was misclassified with the more common neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1), until 1987 when it was found via genetic linkage analysis that the gene for NF1 was localized to chromosome 17 and the gene for NF2 was localized to chromosome 22. Large, population-based studies have shown that vestibular schwannomas (VS), the hallmark of NF2, do not occur at increased frequency in...
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