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Comment on the article “Germline SMARCB1 mutation predisposes to multiple meningiomas and schwannomas with preferential location of cranial meningiomas at the falx cerebri” by van den Munckhof et al.

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  1. Department of Medical Genetics, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway

    Trine E. Prescott

  2. Department of Genetic Medicine, St Mary’s Hospital, Manchester Academic Health Sciences Centre (MAHSC), University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9WL, UK

    Miriam J. Smith & D. Gareth Evans

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Prescott, T.E., Smith, M.J. & Evans, D.G. Comment on the article “Germline SMARCB1 mutation predisposes to multiple meningiomas and schwannomas with preferential location of cranial meningiomas at the falx cerebri” by van den Munckhof et al.. Neurogenetics 13, 103–104 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10048-011-0309-2

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