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ArticleJCI insight2020

Phenotypic heterogeneity of neurofibromatosis type 1 in a large international registry.

Mika M Tabata, Shufeng Li, Pamela Knight, Annette Bakker, Kavita Y Sarin

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Article in JCI insight, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers.

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17citing papers in PubMed
1.7field-weighted citation impact, top 12% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

17 citing papers in PubMed, 36 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Mika M TabataDepartment of Dermatology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Redwood City, California, USA.
Shufeng LiDepartment of Dermatology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Redwood City, California, USA.
Pamela KnightChildren's Tumor Foundation, New York, New York, USA.
Annette BakkerChildren's Tumor Foundation, New York, New York, USA.
Kavita Y SarinDepartment of Dermatology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Redwood City, California, USA.
Stanford University · USChildren's Tumor Foundation · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1) is a rare genetic disorder, characterized by the development of benign and malignant nerve tumors. Although all individuals with NF1 harbor genetic alterations in the same gene, the clinical manifestations of NF1 are extremely heterogeneous even among individuals who carry identical genetic defects. In order to deepen the understanding of phenotypic manifestations in NF1, we comprehensively characterized the prevalence of 18 phenotypic traits in 2051 adults with NF1 from the Children's Tumor Foundation's NF1 registry. We further investigated the coassociation of traits and found positive correlations between spinal neurofibromas and pain, spinal neurofibromas and scoliosis, spinal neurofibromas and optic gliomas, and optic gliomas and sphenoid wing dysplasia. Furthermore, with increasing numbers of cutaneous neurofibromas, the odds ratio of malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumor increased. Phenotypic clustering revealed 6 phenotypic patient cluster subtypes: mild, freckling predominant, neurofibroma predominant, skeletal predominant, late-onset neural severe, and early-onset neural severe, highlighting potential phenotypic subtypes within NF1. Together, our results support potential shared molecular pathogenesis for certain clinical manifestations and illustrate the utility of disease registries for understanding rare diseases.

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AdolescentAdultAgedComorbidityHumansMiddle AgedMutationNeurofibromatosis 1Neurofibromin 1PhenotypePrevalenceRegistriesYoung AdultNeurofibromin 1NF1 protein, humanDermatologyGenetic diseasesGenetic variationNeurological disordersNeuroscience

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PMID32814709
PMCPMC7455126
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