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Constitutional mismatch repair deficiency in a healthy child: On the spot diagnosis?
Clinical genetics - 1 Jan 2018
Suerink M, Potjer T P, Versluijs A B, Ten Broeke S W, Tops C M, Wimmer K, Nielsen M
Abstract excerpt
Constitutional mismatch repair deficiency (CMMRD) is a rare, recessively inherited childhood cancer predisposition syndrome caused by biallelic germline mutations in one of the mismatch repair genes. The CMMRD phenotype overlaps with that of neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1), since many patients have multiple café-au-lait macules (CALM) and other NF1 signs, but no germline NF1 mutations. We report of a case of a...
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