Clinical and genetic associations in Marfan syndrome and related disorders.

Article

Clinical and genetic associations in Marfan syndrome and related disorders.

The Mount Sinai journal of medicine, New York - 1 Sept 1992

Ramirez F, Lee B, Vitale E

Abstract excerpt

Although Marfan syndrome has been a recognized clinical entity for nearly a century, only in the early 1950s were its manifestations and genetic features firmly and fully established. Similarly, although the identification of the basic defect in Marfan syndrome had been vigorously pursued for sev...

Topics

Fibrillins
Genes
Humans
Marfan Syndrome
Microfilament Proteins
Mutation

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