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• Because the genetic defect in the germline of I patients with FAP has been well characterized, syndromes once thought to be distinct from FAP are now recognized to be, in reality, part of the phenotypic spectrum of FAP.

Syndromes with a germline mutation in the adenomatous polyposis coli gene (AC'P) include:

FAP,

Gardner syndrome,

sonie Turcot syndrome families,

and attenuated adenomatous polyposis coli

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