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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]; Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: Shanshan Cen, M.D. [2]
Overview
Causes
- Plexiform neurofibroma is caused by the bi-allelic inactivation of the Neurofibromatosis type I tumor suppressor gene.[1][2]
References
- ↑ Neurofibroma. Dr Bruno Di Muzio and Dr Maxime St-Amant et al. Radiopaedia.org 2015. http://radiopaedia.org/articles/neurofibroma
- ↑ Colman SD, Williams CA, Wallace MR (1995). "Benign neurofibromas in type 1 neurofibromatosis (NF1) show somatic deletions of the NF1 gene". Nature Genetics. 11 (1): 90–2. doi:10.1038/ng0995-90. PMID 7550323. Retrieved 2015-11-16.