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Repositioning the hereditary paraganglioma critical region on chromosome band 11q23.
Human genetics - 1 Mar 1999
Baysal B E, van Schothorst E M, Farr J E, Grashof P, Myssiorek D, Rubinstein W S, Taschner P, Cornelisse C J, Devlin B, Devilee P, Richard C W
Abstract excerpt
Hereditary paragangliomas (PGL, glomus tumors, MIM no.168000) are mostly benign, slow-growing tumors of the head and neck region. The gene (or genes) affecting risk to PGL are subject to genomic imprinting: children of affected fathers exhibit an autosomal dominant pattern of disease inheritance, whereas children of affected mothers rarely if ever develop the disease through maternal transmission. We previously...
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