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. 2014 Dec;164A(12):2969-78.
doi: 10.1002/ajmg.a.36754. Epub 2014 Sep 24.

Update from the 2013 International Neurofibromatosis Conference

Scott R Plotkin  1 , Anne C Albers, Dusica Babovic-Vuksanovic, Jaishri O Blakeley, Xandra O Breakefield, Courtney M Dunn, D Gareth Evans, Michael J Fisher, Jan M Friedman, Marco Giovannini, David H Gutmann, Michel Kalamarides, Andrea I McClatchey, Ludwine Messiaen, Helen Morrison, David B Parkinson, Anat O Stemmer-Rachamimov, Catherine D Van Raamsdonk, Vincent M Riccardi, Tena Rosser, Aaron Schindeler, Miriam J Smith, David A Stevenson, Nicole J Ullrich, Thijs van der Vaart, Brian Weiss, Brigitte C Widemann, Yuan Zhu, Annette C Bakker, Alison C Lloyd
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Update from the 2013 International Neurofibromatosis Conference

Scott R Plotkin et al. Am J Med Genet A. 2014 Dec.
No abstract available

Keywords: NF1; NF2; SMARCB1; merlin; neurofibromatosis 1; neurofibromatosis 2; neurofibromin; preclinical models; schwannomatosis; tumor suppressor.

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