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Neurofibromin

The NF1 gene ecodes a protein involved in signal transduction. It is a negative regulator of the intracellular ras pathway. Mutations cause autosomal dominant disorder such as neurofibromatosis type 1, Watson syndrome, and juvenile myelomonocytic leukemia. The latter is also seen with somatic mutations.

Genetests:

Clinic Method Carrier testing
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Specimen type genomic DNA
Clinic Method Massive parallel sequencing
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Specimen type genomic DNA
Research Method Genomic sequencing of the entire coding region
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Specimen type genomic DNA
Research Method Multiplex Ligation-Dependent Probe Amplification
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Specimen type genomic DNA

Related Diseases:

Juvenile myelomonocytic leukemia
NF1
Familial spinal neurofibromatosis
NF1
Neurofibromatosis 1
NF1
Neurofibromatosis-Noonan syndrome
NF1
Watson syndrome
NF1

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Robinson PN et al. (1996) Recurrent 2-bp deletion in exon 10c of the NF1 gene in two cases of von Recklinghausen neurofibromatosis.

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Ars E et al. (2000) Mutations affecting mRNA splicing are the most common molecular defects in patients with neurofibromatosis type 1.

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Fahsold R et al. (2000) Minor lesion mutational spectrum of the entire NF1 gene does not explain its high mutability but points to a functional domain upstream of the GAP-related domain.

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Park KC et al. (2000) A nonsense mutation at Arg-1947 in the NF1 gene in a case of neurofibromatosis type 1 in a Korean patient.

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Messiaen LM et al. (2000) Exhaustive mutation analysis of the NF1 gene allows identification of 95% of mutations and reveals a high frequency of unusual splicing defects.

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Colapietro P et al. (2003) NF1 exon 7 skipping and sequence alterations in exonic splice enhancers (ESEs) in a neurofibromatosis 1 patient.

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Zatkova A et al. (2004) Disruption of exonic splicing enhancer elements is the principal cause of exon skipping associated with seven nonsense or missense alleles of NF1.

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Ling JQ et al. (2006) CTCF mediates interchromosomal colocalization between Igf2/H19 and Wsb1/Nf1.

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Wikipedia article

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