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Gene: DICER1 PMCID: PMC7859642 PMID: 33552988 HGNCID: Unavailable Inheritance Pattern: Autosomal Dominant Disease Entity: familial pleuropulmonary blastoma (PPB),cystic nephroma, ovarian Sertoli-Leydig cell tumor (SLCT), multinodular goiter, cervix embryonal rhabdomyosarcoma, Wilms’ tumor, nasal chondromesenchymal hamartoma, ciliary body medulloepithelioma, differentiated thyroid carcinoma, pituitary blastoma, pineoblastoma, and sarcomas of different sites. Mutation: Germline Zygosity: Heterozygosity most common Variant: ClinVarID not available Family Information: No mention of disease within family Case: No case specified GnomAD: N/A Mutation Type: Nonsense or Frameshift

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