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Verifying genetic diagnoses: Hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia - juvenile polyposis syndrome (HHT-JPS) or familial adenomatous polyposis (FAP)?
Clinical and investigative medicine. Medecine clinique et experimentale - 1 Sept 2026
Wagner Mitchell, Beke Alexander, Wilton-Clark Harry, Zepeda-Gomez Sergio, Vethanayagam Dilini
Abstract excerpt
A 26-year-old woman was diagnosed with hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia - juvenile polyposis syndrome (HHT-JPS) after an incidental finding of a pulmonary arteriovenous malformation. Molecular genetic testing confirmed the presence of a pathogenic SMAD4 variant, later found to be present in several other family members who were all previously labelled as having familial adenomatous polyposis. This short...
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- Humans
- Telangiectasia, Hereditary Hemorrhagic
- Adenomatous Polyposis Coli
- Female
- Smad4 Protein
