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Familial occurrence of schwannomas and malignant rhabdoid tumour associated with a duplication in SMARCB1.
Journal of medical genetics - 1 Jan 2009
Swensen J J, Keyser J, Coffin C M, Biegel J A, Viskochil D H, Williams M S
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BACKGROUND: The role of germline and somatic SMARCB1 gene mutations in malignant rhabdoid tumour (MRT) predisposition is well known. Germline SMARCB1 mutations have also recently been identified in a subset of individuals with schwannomatosis. Surprisingly, MRT predisposition and schwannomatosis have never been reported to co-occur in a family. The correlation between genotype and phenotype for mutations in...
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