Elastic fiber abnormalities in hypermobility type Ehlers–Danlos syndrome patients with tenascin‐X mutations

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Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (EDS) is a heterogeneous group of connective tissue disorders with characteristic skin and joint involvement. The concept that EDS is a disease of fibrillar collagen was challenged by the identification of a clinically distinct, recessive type of EDS caused by deficiency of the extracellular matrix protein tenascin-X (TNX). Interestingly, haploinsufficiency of TNX is associated with the...

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