Clinical and genetic associations in Marfan syndrome and related disorders.

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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 several decades, it was only in 1991 that two independent reports implicated fibrillin as the defective gene product....

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