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SUBMITTER: Hulsebos TJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC1852715 | biostudies-literature | 2007 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Hulsebos Theo J M TJ Plomp Astrid S AS Wolterman Ruud A RA Robanus-Maandag Els C EC Baas Frank F Wesseling Pieter P
American journal of human genetics 20070216 4
Patients with schwannomatosis develop multiple schwannomas but no vestibular schwannomas diagnostic of neurofibromatosis type 2. We report an inactivating germline mutation in exon 1 of the tumor-suppressor gene INI1 in a father and daughter who both had schwannomatosis. Inactivation of the wild-type INI1 allele, by a second mutation in exon 5 or by clear loss, was found in two of four investigated schwannomas from these patients. All four schwannomas displayed complete loss of nuclear INI1 prot ...[more]