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Low-dose dasatinib rescues cardiac function in Noonan syndrome.
JCI insight - 8 Dec 2016
Yi Jae-Sung, Huang Yan, Kwaczala Andrea T, Kuo Ivana Y, Ehrlich Barbara E, Campbell Stuart G, Giordano Frank J, Bennett Anton M
Abstract excerpt
Noonan syndrome (NS) is a common autosomal dominant disorder that presents with short stature, craniofacial dysmorphism, and cardiac abnormalities. Activating mutations in the PTPN11 gene encoding for the Src homology 2 (SH2) domain-containing protein tyrosine phosphatase-2 (SHP2) causes approximately 50% of NS cases. In contrast, NS with multiple lentigines (NSML) is caused by mutations that inactivate SHP2, but...
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