ORIGINAL ARTICLE
Cardiac manifestations and gene mutations of patients
with RASopathies in Taiwan
Chung-Lin Lee
1
| Louis Tan Hock-Cheong Tan
1
| Hsiang-Yu Lin
2,3,4,5,6
|
Wuh-Liang Hwu
7
| Ni-Chung Lee
7
| Yin-Hsiu Chien
7
| Chih-Kuang Chuang
4,8
|
Mei-Hwan Wu
7
| Jou-Kou Wang
7
| Shao-Yin Chu
9
| Ju-Li Lin
10
|
Fu-Sung Lo
10
| Pen-Hua Su
11
| Chia-Chi Hsu
12
| Yu-Yuan Ko
12
|
Ming-Ren Chen
13
| Hui-Ching Chiu
2
| Shuan-Pei Lin
2,3,4,14
1
Department of Pediatrics, Mackay Memorial Hospital, Hsinchu, Taiwan
2
Department of Pediatrics and Rare Disease Center, Mackay Memorial Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan
3
Department of Medicine, Mackay Medical College, New Taipei City, Taiwan
4
Division of Genetics and Metabolism, Department of Medical Research, MacKay Memorial Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan
5
Nursing and Management, Mackay Junior College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan
6
Department of Medical Research, China Medical University Hospital, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan
7
Department of Pediatrics, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan
8
College of Medicine, Fu-Jen Catholic University, Taipei, Taiwan
9
Department of Pediatrics, Buddhist Tzu-Chi General Hospital, Hualien, Taiwan
10
Department of Pediatrics, Chang-Gung Memorial Hospital, Taoyuan, Taiwan
11
Department of Pediatrics, Chung Shan Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan
12
Department of Pediatrics, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan
13
Pediatric Cardiology Department, Mackay Children's Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan
14
Department of Infant and Child Care, National Taipei University of Nursing and Health Sciences, Taipei, Taiwan
Correspondence
Shuan-Pei Lin, Department of Pediatrics, Mackay
Memorial Hospital, No. 92, Sec. 2, Chung-Shan
North Road, Taipei 10449, Taiwan.
Email: 4535lin@gmail.com
Hsiang-Yu Lin, Division of Genetics and
Metabolism, Departments of Pediatrics and
Medical Research, Mackay Memorial Hospital,
No. 92, Sec. 2, Chung-Shan North Road, Taipei
10449, Taiwan.
Email: lxc46199@ms37.hinet.net
Funding information
Mackay Memorial Hospital, Grant/Award
Numbers: MMH-101-111, MMH-103-092,
MMH-107-82, MMH-E-108-16; Ministry of
Science and Technology, Taiwan, Grant/Award
Numbers: MOST-108-2314-B-195-012-MY3,
MOST-108-2314-B-195-014, MOST-
105-2314-B-195-013, MOST-105-2628-B-
195-001-MY3, MOST-106-2314-B-
195-015-MY2
Abstract
RASopathies are developmental diseases caused by mutations in rat sarcoma–mitogen-
activated protein kinase pathway genes. These disorders, such as Noonan syndrome
(NS) and NS-related disorders (NSRD), including cardio-facio-cutaneous (CFC) syn-
drome, Costello syndrome (CS), and NS with multiple lentigines (NSML; also known as
LEOPARD syndrome), have a similar systemic phenotype. A wide spectrum of congeni-
tal heart disease and hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCMP) can exhibit major associated
characteristics. A retrospective study was conducted at the Mackay Memorial Hospital,
National Taiwan University Hospital, Buddhist Tzu-Chi General Hospital, Chang-Gung
Memorial Hospital, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, and Chung Shan Medical Uni-
versity Hospital from January 2007 to December 2018. We reviewed the clinical
records of 76 patients with a confirmed molecular diagnosis of RASopathies, including
NS, CS, CFC syndrome, and NSML. We evaluated the demographic data and medical
records with clinical phenotypes of cardiac structural anomalies using cross-sectional
and color Doppler echocardiography, electrocardiographic findings, and follow-up data.
Chung-Lin Lee and Louis Tan Hock-Cheong Tan contributed equally to this study.
Received: 16 April 2019 Revised: 18 November 2019 Accepted: 20 November 2019
DOI: 10.1002/ajmg.a.61429
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