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Mendelian inheritance and pedigree reading
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A 29-year-old woman with multiple café-au-lait macules, axillary freckling, and cutaneous neurofibromas seeks preconception counseling. Testing confirms a constitutional heterozygous pathogenic NF1 variant that arose de novo. Her partner does not carry the variant, and neither of their two children inherited it.