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syndrome
(redirected from Li-Fraumeni syndrome)

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syndrome
Med any combination of signs and symptoms that are indicative of a particular disease or disorder

syndrome [′sin‚drōm]
(medicine)
A group of signs and symptoms which together characterize a disease. Also known as complex.


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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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