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Sarcoidosis

Inheritance patterns and prenatal diagnosis

Inheritance patterns
There are clearly genetic factors which are important. How genes interact with other factors to produce Sarcoidosis is not known.

Prenatal diagnosis
None. Sarcoidosis is not known to occur before birth.

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Medical text written March 2004 by Contact a Family. Last updated August 2008 by Professor A Bush, Professor of Paediatric Respirology, Royal Brompton Hospital, London, UK.

 

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