Article
Genetic evidence that Turcot syndrome is not allelic to familial adenomatous polyposis.
American journal of medical genetics - 15 Jul 1992
Tops C M, Vasen H F, van Berge Henegouwen G, Simoons P P, van de Klift H M, van Leeuwen S J, Breukel C, Fodde R, den Hartog Jager F C, Nagengast F M
Abstract excerpt
Turcot syndrome (TS) is a rare genetic disease in which brain tumors occur in association with colonic polyposis. Since Turcot's original description in 1959, there have been disagreements about the mode of inheritance as well as the clinical expression of this condition. Some investigators maint...
Topics
- Adenomatous Polyposis Coli
- Adolescent
- Adult
- Alleles
- Central Nervous System Neoplasms
- Child
- Female
- Genes, Recessive
- Genetic Linkage
- Humans
- Male
- Middle Aged
