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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Jun 19.
Published in final edited form as: Br J Dermatol. 2011 Jan 28;164(3):521–529. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2133.2010.10122.x

Table 1.

The clinical features of the RASopathies.

NF1 Cardio-facio-cutaneous syndrome Costello syndrome Noonan syndrome LEOPARD syndrome Capillary malformation-arteriovenous malformation
Gene NF1 BRAF, MEK1, MEK2, KRAS HRAS PTPN11, KRAS, SOS1, RAF1, NRAS, SHOC2, CBL* PTPN11, RAF, BRAF RASA1
Predominant cutaneous features
  • Café au lait macules

  • Intertriginous freckling

  • Neurofibromas

  • Plexiform neurofibroma

  • Ulerythema ophryogenes

  • Keratosis pilaris

  • Melanocytic nevi

  • Infantile hemangiomas

  • Papillomata of the nose and perianal region

  • Palmoplantar hyperkeratosis

  • Redundant skin on the hands and feet

  • Congenital lymphedema

  • Café au lait macules

  • Lentigenes

  • Café noir patches

  • Capillary malformations

  • Arteriovenous malformations

Cardiac defects
  • Pulmonic stenosis

  • Pulmonic stenosis

  • Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy

  • Pulmonic stenosis

  • Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy

  • Pulmonic stenosis

  • Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy

  • EKG abnormalities

  • Pulmonic stenosis

  • Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy

Rare
Cancer predisposition Yes
  • Optic glioma

  • Hematologic malignancies

  • Meningioma and other brain cancers

  • Malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumor

  • Pheochromocytoma

Rare
  • possible risk for ALL and lymphoma

Yes
  • malignant solid tumors (rhadmyosarco ma, neuroblastoma, transitional cell carcinoma of the bladder)

Rare
  • hematologic malignancies

Rare
  • hematologic malignancies

Rare
  • possible increased risk for neural tumors

Other
  • Lisch nodules

  • Learning disability

  • Pseudoarthrosis

  • Macrocephaly

  • Sphenoid wing dysplasia

  • Renal artery stenosis

  • Hypertension

  • Failure to thrive (severe)

  • Developmental delay

  • Failure to thrive (mild)

  • Developmental delay

  • Sociable, outgoiong personality

  • Low posterior hairline

  • Webbed neck

  • Pectus excavatum

  • Bleeding tendency

  • Short stature

  • Ocular hypertelorism

  • Sensorineural hearing loss

  • Short stature

  • Risk for intracranial arteriovenous malformation

  • Parkes-Weber syndrome

*

Martinelli et al recently reported germline mutations in CBL (a tumor-suppressor gene commonly mutated in myeloid leukemias) in patients with a Noonan phenotype who had negative screening for mutations in the other genes linked with Noonan syndrome39.