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ReviewAmerican journal of medical genetics. Part C, Seminars in medical genetics2020

Congenital heart defects in Noonan syndrome: Diagnosis, management, and treatment.

Léa Linglart, Bruce D Gelb

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Review in American journal of medical genetics. Part C, Seminars in medical genetics, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 62 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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0cells of the map it votes in
62citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
5.7field-weighted citation impact, top 3% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

62 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 123 citations in OpenAlex.

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  5. Clinical and Genetic Characterization of Noonan Syndrome in a Colombian Pediatric CohortJournal of clinical research in pediatric endocrinology · 2026
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  18. Cardiovascular aspects of Noonan syndrome and related disorders.Medizinische Genetik : Mitteilungsblatt des Berufsverbandes Medizinische Genetik e.V · 2025
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2 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Léa LinglartSorbonne University, Paris, France.ORCID 0000-0002-0165-9603
Bruce D GelbMindich Child Health and Development Institute and the Departments of Pediatrics and Genetics & Genomic Sciences, the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York.ORCID 0000-0001-8527-5027
Child Health and Development Institute · USSorbonne Université · FR

Funding

Pediatric Heart Disease: Getting from Mutations to TherapeuticsR35HL135742 · NHLBI · ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI · PI GELB, BRUCE D · 2017 to 2023
$6.1M
Fondation Bettencourt SchuellerNHLBI NIH HHS R35 HL135742
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Noonan syndrome is a pleomorphic genetic disorder, in which a high percentage of affected individuals have cardiovascular involvement, most prevalently various forms of congenital heart disease (i.e., pulmonary valve stenosis, septal defects, left-sided lesions, and complex forms with multiple anomalies). Care includes attentiveness to several comorbidities, some directly impacting cardiac management (bleeding diatheses and lymphatic anomalies). More than 50% of patients with Noonan syndrome harbor PTPN11 pathogenic variation, which results in hyperactivation of RAS/mitogen-activated protein kinase signaling. Several other disease genes with similar biological effects have been uncovered for NS and phenotypically related disorders, collectively called the RASopathies. Molecular diagnosis with gene resequencing panels is now widely available, but phenotype variability and in some cases, subtlety, continues to make identification of Noonan syndrome difficult. Until genetic testing becomes universal for patients with congenital heart disease, alertness to Noonan syndrome's broad clinical presentations remains crucial. Genotype-phenotype associations for Noonan syndrome enable better prognostication for affected patients when a molecular diagnosis is established. We still lack Noonan syndrome-specific treatment; however, newly developed anticancer RAS pathway inhibitors could fill that gap if safety and efficacy can be established for indications such as pulmonary valve stenosis.

Indexed as

Abnormalities, MultipleFailure to ThriveHeart Defects, CongenitalHumansMutationNoonan SyndromePhenotypeProtein Tyrosine Phosphatase, Non-Receptor Type 11Protein Tyrosine Phosphatase, Non-Receptor Type 11PTPN11 protein, humancongenital heart diseaseNoonan syndromeRASopathy

Identifiers

PMID32022400
PMCPMC7682536
OpenAlexW3004779095

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