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SUBMITTER: Russell-Swetek A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3487594 | biostudies-literature | 2008 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Journal of medical genetics 20080901 9
Paediatric choroid plexus carcinomas (CPC) and adrenocortical carcinomas (ACC) are exceedingly rare tumours, each occurring at an annual rate of 0.3 cases per million children or less. Although both tumour types are associated with Li-Fraumeni syndrome (LFS), the penetrance of germline TP53 mutations in CPC remains to be established. We report here a young boy without a family history of cancer who presented with CPC and subsequently ACC. Genetic testing revealed a novel de novo germline TP53 mu ...[more]