Somatic gene mutation and human disease other than cancer.

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While the focus of much mutation research is on germ-line mutation, somatic mutation is being found to be important in human disease. Neurofibromatosis 1 and McCune-Albright are disorders which are detected in the skin and other systems. The skin manifestations were essential for the demonstration of somatic mosaicism in neurofibromatosis 1, while analysis of blood DNA demonstrated somatic mutation in...

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