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Glossary

  • Café-au-lait spots: Birthmark on skin that is coffee-colored.
  • Cardiac rhabdomyomas: Benign heart tumors that are found in up to two-thirds of patients with TSC. Cardiac rhabdomyomas may develop prenatally and can be used as an early detection of TSC.
  • Chromosomal microarray analysis: A type of genetic testing that looks for duplicate of deleted chromosomal pieces.
  • Chromosome: Composed of DNA molecules (genes) that help make up organisms
  • Cortical tubers: Collection of abnormally sized neurons and their supporting cells.