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Genetic Predisposition to Cancer
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Medical
Graduate
05/19/2009

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Term
Retinoblastoma
Definition

Autosomal Dominant

 

RB1 gene (tumor supressor)

Later: osteogenic sarcoma

Term
MEN I
Definition

Autosomal Dominant

 

Parathyroid

Pituitary

Pancreas islet cell tumors

Term
MEN IIA
Definition

Autosomal Dominant

 

Thyroid (medullary cancer)

Parathyroid

Pheochromocytoma

Term
MEN IIB
Definition

Autosomal Dominant

 

Thyroid (medullary cancer)

Pheochromocytoma

Mucosal neuromas

Term
Familial polyposis
Definition

Autosomal Dominant

 

Hundreds of colonic poyps

100% CRC incidence

Term
Gardner's syndrome
Definition

Autosomal dominant

 

Familial polyposis

Osteomas

Soft tissue tumors

Term
Turcot's Syndrome
Definition

Autosomal Dominant

 

Familial polyposis

CNS tumors

Term
Peutz-Jeghers Syndrome
Definition

Autosomal Dominant

 

Hyperpigmented macules on lips/oral mucosa

Multiple GI hamartomas

Increased incidence of non-colon cancer

----------stomach, breast, ovaries

Term
Neurofibromatosis Type I
Definition

Autosomal Dominant

 

Multiple neurofibromas

Cafe-au-lait spots

Pheochromocytoma

Bone cysts

Wilms' tumor (nephroblastoma)

Term
Neurofibromatosis Type 2
Definition

Autosomal Dominant

 

Bilateral acoustic schwannomas

Term
Von Hippel-Lindau disease
Definition

Autosomal Dominant

 

Cerebellar hemangiomas

Renal cell cancer

Liver cysts

+/- Renal cysts

Term
Xeroderma Pigmentosum
Definition

Autosomal Recessive

 

Inability to repair UV DNA damage

Skin cancer

Term
Albinism
Definition

Autosomal Recessive

 

Normal # melanocytes

Inability to produce melanin

Skin cancer

Term
Down's syndrome
Definition

Trisomy 21

 

Meiotic nondisjunction

a/w ALL

Term
Tuberous Sclerosis
Definition

Autosomal Dominant

 

Adenoma sebaceum (facial angiofobromas)

Seizures

MR

Glial nodules in brain

Renal angiomyolipomas

Cardiac rhabdomyomas

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