A cluster of mutations in neurofibromatosis is important risk factor for severe symptoms

(University of Alabama at Birmingham) Research led by Ludwine Messiaen shows that missense mutations in a cluster of just five codons in the NF1 gene are an important risk factor for severe symptoms of the genetic disease neurofibromatosis type 1. Such information is vital to help guide clinical management and genetic counseling in this complex disease, and it shows a potential need for increased disease surveillance of patients with missense mutations in that cluster -- specifically, codons 844...