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A heterozygous frameshift mutation of the PTEN/MMAC1 gene in a patient with Lhermitte-Duclos disease - only the mutated allele was expressed in the cerebellar tumor.
International journal of molecular medicine - 1 Jun 1998
Iida S, Tanaka Y, Fujii H, Hayashi S, Kimura M, Nagareda T, Moriwaki K
Abstract excerpt
Lhermitte-Duclos disease is a rare disorder of the cerebellum which exhibits a focally indolent growth of the cerebellar cortex. The disease is sometimes associated with multiple hamartoma syndrome, or Cowden disease, an autosomal, dominantly inherited cancer syndrome. Germline mutations of the PTEN/MMAC1 gene, a gene recently discovered to be a tumor suppressor, have been documented in four families with Cowden...
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