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A 24-Year-Old Man Comes to the Physician with Complaints of Tinnitus

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A 24-year-old man comes to the physician with complaints of tinnitus, vertigo, and hearing loss.  A contrast-enhanced, T1-weighted image of his brain is shown below. A 24-year-old man comes to the physician with complaints of tinnitus, vertigo, and hearing loss.  A contrast-enhanced, T1-weighted image of his brain is shown below.   This patient's condition is most likely associated with a mutation involving which of the following genes? A) APC on chromosome 5 B) NF1 on chromosome 17 C) NF2 on chromosome 22 D) p53 on chromosome 17 E) RB1 on chromosome 13 F) VHL on chromosome 3 This patient's condition is most likely associated with a mutation involving which of the following genes?


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