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syndromeIn medicine, a set of signs and symptoms that always occur together, thus characterizing a particular condition or disorder. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Persons with a heterozygous gene for ataxia telangectasia (53), or carrying a gene for Li-Fraumeni syndrome (54) are examples of susceptible populations. But at the time, scientists could only speculate that the same gene underlies cases of breast cancer in families without a history of the unusual disease, called Li-Fraumeni syndrome (SN: 12/1/90, p. Jerry Shay and Woodring Wright, with other researchers at the National Cancer Institute, treated noncancerous breast epithelial cells sourced from a woman with Li-Fraumeni syndrome, a genetic condition with a predisposition for breast cancer, with telomerase inhibitors. |
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