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Novel exon skipping mutation in the fibrillin-1 gene: two 'hot spots' for the neonatal Marfan syndrome.
Clinical genetics - 1 Feb 1999
Booms P, Cisler J, Mathews K R, Godfrey M, Tiecke F, Kaufmann U C, Vetter U, Hagemeier C, Robinson P N
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The Marfan syndrome is an autosomal dominant heritable disorder of connective tissue that involves principally the skeletal, ocular, and cardiovascular systems. The most severe end of the phenotypic spectrum, the neonatal Marfan syndrome (nMFS), is characterized by pronounced atrioventricular val...
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