TY - JOUR
T1 - Germline KRAS and BRAF mutations in cardio-facio-cutaneous syndrome
AU - Niihori, Tetsuya
AU - Aoki, Yoko
AU - Narumi, Yoko
AU - Neri, Giovanni
AU - Cavé, Hélène
AU - Verloes, Alain
AU - Okamoto, Nobuhiko
AU - Hennekam, Raoul C.M.
AU - Gillessen-Kaesbach, Gabriele
AU - Wieczorek, Dagmar
AU - Kavamura, Maria Ines
AU - Kurosawa, Kenji
AU - Ohashi, Hirofumi
AU - Wilson, Louise
AU - Heron, Delphine
AU - Bonneau, Dominique
AU - Corona, Giuseppina
AU - Kaname, Tadashi
AU - Naritomi, Kenji
AU - Baumann, Clarisse
AU - Matsumoto, Naomichi
AU - Kato, Kumi
AU - Kure, Shigeo
AU - Matsubara, Yoichi
N1 - Funding Information:
We wish to thank the individuals and their families who participated in this study and the doctors who referred the cases. The support of CFC International in facilitating the collection of patient samples is gratefully acknowledged. We are grateful to J. Miyazaki, Osaka University, for supplying the pCAGGS expression vector. This work was supported by Grants-in-Aid from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan and Grants-in-Aid from the Ministry of Health, Labor, and Welfare of Japan.
PY - 2006/3
Y1 - 2006/3
N2 - Cardio-facio-cutaneous (CFC) syndrome is characterized by a distinctive facial appearance, heart defects and mental retardation. It phenotypically overlaps with Noonan and Costello syndrome, which are caused by mutations in PTPN11 and HRAS, respectively. In 43 individuals with CFC, we identified two heterozygous KRAS mutations in three individuals and eight BRAF mutations in 16 individuals, suggesting that dysregulation of the RAS-RAF-ERK pathway is a common molecular basis for the three related disorders.
AB - Cardio-facio-cutaneous (CFC) syndrome is characterized by a distinctive facial appearance, heart defects and mental retardation. It phenotypically overlaps with Noonan and Costello syndrome, which are caused by mutations in PTPN11 and HRAS, respectively. In 43 individuals with CFC, we identified two heterozygous KRAS mutations in three individuals and eight BRAF mutations in 16 individuals, suggesting that dysregulation of the RAS-RAF-ERK pathway is a common molecular basis for the three related disorders.
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U2 - 10.1038/ng1749
DO - 10.1038/ng1749
M3 - Journal articles
C2 - 16474404
AN - SCOPUS:33644629727
SN - 1061-4036
VL - 38
SP - 294
EP - 296
JO - Nature Genetics
JF - Nature Genetics
IS - 3
ER -