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[SOS1 mutation: a new cause of Noonan syndrome].
Anales de pediatria (Barcelona, Spain : 2003) - 1 Apr 2008
Serrano-Martín M M, Martínez-Aedo M J, Tartaglia M, López-Siguero J P
Abstract excerpt
Noonan syndrome, characterized by short stature, facial anomalies, heart disease and cryptorchidism in males, is an autosomal dominant, genetically heterogeneous disease. Approximately 50 % of Noonan syndrome cases are caused by gain-of-function mutations in PTPN11, encoding the tyrosine phosphatase (SHP2) and 5 % are caused by KRAS mutations. Recently, a new mutation in SOS1 gene has been identified in...
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