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Neurofibromatosis

Background

Neurofibromatosis (NF) is an inherited genetic disorder causing tumours on nerve tissue anywhere in the body and often other effects.

There are two main types of neurofibromatosis: NF1 caused by a defect on chromosome 17 (90 per cent of cases) and NF2 caused by a defect on Chromosome 22.

What are the symptoms? View What are the symptoms?

Medical text written December 1996 Professor M Patton, Professor of Medical Genetics, St George’s Hospital Medical School, London, UK. Psychological and behavioural characteristics text written by Professor J Turk, Professor of Developmental Psychiatry, St George’s and the Institute of Psychiatry, University of London, London, UK. Last updated September 2007 by Professor G Evans, Professor of Medical Genetics, Regional Genetics Service, St Mary’s Hospital, Manchester, UK.

 

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