Maria Lisa Dentici, Marcello Niceta, Francesca Romana Lepri, Cecilia Mancini, Manuela Priolo, Adeline Alice Bonnard, Camilla Cappelletti, Chiara Leoni, Andrea Ciolfi, Simone Pizzi, Viviana Cordeddu, Cesare Rossi, Marco Ferilli, Mafalda Mucciolo, Vito Luigi Colona, Christine Fauth, Melissa Bellini, Giacomo Biasucci, Lorenzo Sinibaldi, Silvana Briuglia, Andrea Gazzin, Diana Carli, Luigi Memo, Eva Trevisson, Concetta Schiavariello, Maria Luca, Antonio Novelli, Caroline Michot, Anne Sweertvaegher, David Germanaud, Emanuela Scarano, Alessandro De Luca, Giuseppe Zampino, Martin Zenker, Alessandro Mussa, Bruno Dallapiccola, Helene Cavé, Maria Cristina Digilio, Marco Tartaglia
Pathogenic, largely truncating variants in the ETS2 repressor factor (ERF) gene, encoding a transcriptional regulator negatively controlling RAS-MAPK signaling, have been associated with syndromic craniosynostosis involving various cranial sutures and Chitayat syndrome, an ultrarare condition with respiratory distress, skeletal anomalies, and facial dysmorphism. Recently, a single patient with craniosynostosis and a phenotype resembling Noonan syndrome (NS), the most common disorder among the RASopathies, was reported to carry a de novo loss-of-function variant in ERF...
June 1, 2024: European Journal of Human Genetics: EJHG