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Dyskeratosis Congenita

How is it diagnosed?

The majority (eighty per cent) of patients are male and show X-linked recessive patterns of inheritance. The gene responsible for this has been identified and this now provides an accurate diagnostic test for the majority of patients.

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Medical text written August 1996 by Dr I Dokal. Last updated October 2005 by Professor I Dokal, Professor of Haematology, Hammersmith Hospital, London, UK.

 

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