[Gliomas: the role of environmental risk factors and genetic predisposition].

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Exposure to ionising radiation is the only established risk factor for glioma. Although gliomas are looked upon as a non-heritable disease, physicians regularly see patients with affected relatives in practice. A few monogenetic tumour syndromes explain < 5% of all gliomas: neurofibromatosis type 1 and 2, Li-Fraumeni syndrome, tuberous sclerosis, Turcot syndrome, Gorlin syndrome, and the melanomaastrocytoma...

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