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Café-au-lait macules and pediatric malignancy caused by biallelic mutations in the DNA mismatch repair (MMR) gene PMS2.
Pediatric blood & cancer - 1 Jun 2008
Jackson Carl-Christian, Holter Spring, Pollett Aaron, Clendenning Mark, Chou Shirley, Senter Leigha, Ramphal Raveena, Gallinger Steven, Boycott Kym
Abstract excerpt
A 14-year-old male presented with a T4 sigmoid adenocarcinoma, <10 colonic adenomas and multiple café-au-lait macules. Family history was not suggestive of a dominant hereditary form of colorectal cancer. Evaluation of the tumor revealed abnormal immunohistochemical staining of the PMS2 protein a...
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