Title |
Diagnosis of Noonan syndrome and related disorders using target next generation sequencing
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Published in |
BMC Medical Genomics, January 2014
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DOI | 10.1186/1471-2350-15-14 |
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Authors |
Francesca Romana Lepri, Rossana Scavelli, Maria Cristina Digilio, Maria Gnazzo, Simona Grotta, Maria Lisa Dentici, Elisa Pisaneschi, Pietro Sirleto, Rossella Capolino, Anwar Baban, Serena Russo, Tiziana Franchin, Adriano Angioni, Bruno Dallapiccola |
Abstract |
Noonan syndrome is an autosomal dominant developmental disorder with a high phenotypic variability, which shares clinical features with other rare conditions, including LEOPARD syndrome, cardiofaciocutaneous syndrome, Noonan-like syndrome with loose anagen hair, and Costello syndrome. This group of related disorders, so-called RASopathies, is caused by germline mutations in distinct genes encoding for components of the RAS-MAPK signalling pathway. Due to high number of genes associated with these disorders, standard diagnostic testing requires expensive and time consuming approaches using Sanger sequencing. In this study we show how targeted Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) technique can enable accurate, faster and cost-effective diagnosis of RASopathies. |
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