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Yoko Aoki1, Tetsuya Niihori, Hiroshi Kawame, Kenji Kurosawa, Hirofumi Ohashi, Yukichi Tanaka, Mirella Filocamo, Kumi Kato, Yoichi Suzuki, Shigeo Kure, Yoichi Matsubara.
Abstract
Costello syndrome is a multiple congenital anomaly and mental retardation syndrome characterized by coarse face, loose skin, cardiomyopathy and predisposition to tumors. We identified four heterozygous de novo mutations of HRAS in 12 of 13 affected individuals, all of which were previously reported as somatic and oncogenic mutations in various tumors. Our observations suggest that germline mutations in HRAS perturb human development and increase susceptibility to tumors.Entities:
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Year: 2005 PMID: 16170316 DOI: 10.1038/ng1641
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Nat Genet ISSN: 1061-4036 Impact factor: 38.330