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Value of combined phenotypic markers in identifying inheritance of familial adenomatous polyposis.
Gut - 1 Oct 1991
Giardiello F M, Offerhaus G J, Traboulsi E I, Graybeal J C, Maumenee I H, Krush A J, Levin L S, Booker S V, Hamilton S R
Abstract excerpt
Familial adenomatous polyposis is an autosomal dominant disease characterised by the development of hundreds of colorectal adenomas in young adults. Occult radio-opaque jaw lesions and pigmented ocular fundus lesions (formerly called congenital hypertrophy of the retinal pigment epithelium) are extraintestinal phenotypic markers for this disorder. We evaluated the usefulness of the combination of these markers...
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