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Growth standards of patients with Noonan and Noonan-like syndromes with mutations in the RAS/MAPK pathway.
American journal of medical genetics. Part A - 1 Nov 2012
Malaquias Alexsandra C, Brasil Amanda S, Pereira Alexandre C, Arnhold Ivo J P, Mendonca Berenice B, Bertola Debora R, Jorge Alexander A L
Abstract excerpt
Noonan syndrome (NS) and Noonan-like syndromes (NLS) are autosomal dominant disorders caused by heterozygous mutations in genes of the RAS/MAPK pathway. The aim of the study was to construct specific growth charts for patients with NS and NLS. Anthropometric measurements (mean of 4.3 measurements per patient) were obtained in a mixed cross-sectional and longitudinal mode from 127 NS and 10 NLS patients with...
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