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Li-Fraumeni cancer syndrome

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Pronunciation: lē frah′men-ē
familial breast cancer in young women, with soft-tissue sarcomas in children, brain tumors and other cancers in close relatives; autosomal dominant inheritance, caused by mutation in the P53 gene on chromosome 17p.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 






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