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Fibrillin-1 (FBN1) gene frameshift mutations in Marfan patients: genotype-phenotype correlation.
Clinical genetics - 1 Jun 2001
Pepe G, Giusti B, Evangelisti L, Porciani M C, Brunelli T, Giurlani L, Attanasio M, Fattori R, Bagni C, Comeglio P, Abbate R, Gensini G F
Abstract excerpt
Marfan syndrome (MFS) is a multisystemic disease associated with mutations in the fibrillin-1 gene. Most of the reported mutations are missense substitutions mainly affecting the epidermal growth factor (EGF)-like protein domain structure and the calcium-binding (cb) site. The aim of our study was to investigate the correlation between fibrillin-1 frameshift mutations and the clinical phenotype in patients...
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