Conclusions

Conclusions:

 From my research I have discovered that there are no clear gender differences in developing Neurofibromatosis Type 1 and certain phenotypes. There is some speculation about steroid hormones in females amplifying the effects of the NF1 gene, but those ideas remain to be mere speculation. Further research is looking into those ideas. I have also discovered that NF1 gene is present across species, but could not find whether or not these species experience the same mutations or mutations at all in their NF1 gene. As already discussed the genotype-phenotype correlations do exist and there is an extensive network of them. They have proved difficult to research due to the fact that most are very individualized and specific.