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Peutz-Jeghers syndrome - are you familiar with it?

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Peutz-Jeghers syndrome - are you familiar with it?

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Genetic diseases pose a major challenge to doctors - unfortunately, medicine is currently unable to completely cure genetic diseases by 'repairing' damaged genes or chromosomes. The only option is usually to treat the symptoms of the disease in order to make the patient's life as comfortable as possible.

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Genetic disease Lkb1 gene Peutz-jeghers syndrome

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