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Family with Legius syndrome (neurofibromatosis type 1-like syndrome).
The Journal of dermatology - 1 Jul 2015
Sakai Noriyasu, Maeda Tatsuro, Kawakami Hiroshi, Uchiyama Masaki, Harada Kazutoshi, Tsuboi Ryoji, Mitsuhashi Yoshihiko
Abstract excerpt
Legius syndrome (Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man no. 611431) or neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1)-like syndrome was first reported by Legius et al. in 2007. We herein report the first instance of Legius syndrome occurring in two female siblings in Japan. Both individuals presented cafe-au-lait macules and freckling. Mutation analysis revealed a mutation of c.349C>T resulting in p.Arg117* in the SPRED1 gene as...
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