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Familial aggregation of malignant melanoma/dysplastic naevi and tumours of the nervous system: an original syndrome of tumour proneness.
Annales de genetique - 1 Jan 1997
Bahuau M, Vidaud D, Kujas M, Palangié A, Assouline B, Chaignaud-Lebreton M, Prieur M, Vidaud M, Harpey J P, Lafourcade J, Caille B
Abstract excerpt
A five-generation family is here reported in which several members developed malignant melanoma, dysplastic naevi, astrocytoma in all grades, benign or malignant schwannoma, neurofibroma, or meningioma in a single instance. Significant cosegregation of skin and nervous tumours, preclusion of allelism to type 1 neurofibromatosis and phenotypic departure from known syndromes of hereditary proneness to cancer make...
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