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Characterization of microsatellite markers flanking FBN1: utility in the diagnostic evaluation for Marfan syndrome.
American journal of medical genetics - 15 Feb 2001
Judge D P, Biery N J, Dietz H C
Abstract excerpt
Marfan syndrome (MFS) is an autosomal dominant disorder of connective tissue with marked interfamilial and intrafamilial variation in phenotype. The primary defect in affected patients resides in the gene for fibrillin-1 (FBN1) on 15q21. Linkage analysis has shown no locus heterogeneity in the classic phenotype, although substantial allelic heterogeneity exists. Recently it has been shown that the size of the...
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