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Bannayan-Riley-Ruvalcaba syndrome

Inheritance patterns and prenatal diagnosis

Inheritance patterns
Autosomal dominant.

Prenatal diagnosis
In families where the PTEN gene mutations have been diagnosed this is possible by amniocentesis at sixteen to eighteen weeks of pregnancy or by Chronic Villus Sampling (CVS) at about ten to twelve weeks.

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Medical text written October 2005 by Contact a Family. Approved October 2005 by Dr K Lachlan, Specialist Registrar in Clinical Genetics, Essex Regional Genetics Service, Southampton, UK.

 

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