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Deletion of PTEN in a patient with Bannayan-Riley-Ruvalcaba syndrome suggests allelism with Cowden disease.
American journal of medical genetics - 5 Sept 1997
Arch E M, Goodman B K, Van Wesep R A, Liaw D, Clarke K, Parsons R, McKusick V A, Geraghty M T
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We report on an 18-month-old boy with an interstitial deletion at 10q23.2-q24.1. This region includes the PTEN gene, mutations of which have been reported to cause Cowden disease. Our patient presented with manifestations of Bannayan-Riley-Ruvalcaba (BRR) syndrome. The BRR syndrome is a rare diso...
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