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Constitutional mismatch repair deficiency in a healthy child: On the spot diagnosis?

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Constitutional mismatch repair deficiency (CMMRD) is a rare, recessively inherited childhood cancer predisposition syndrome caused by biallelic germline mutations in one of the mismatch repair genes. The CMMRD phenotype overlaps… Click to show full abstract

Constitutional mismatch repair deficiency (CMMRD) is a rare, recessively inherited childhood cancer predisposition syndrome caused by biallelic germline mutations in one of the mismatch repair genes. The CMMRD phenotype overlaps with that of neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1), since many patients have multiple café‐au‐lait macules (CALM) and other NF1 signs, but no germline NF1 mutations.

Keywords: mismatch repair; constitutional mismatch; mismatch; repair deficiency

Journal Title: Clinical Genetics
Year Published: 2018

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