Histopathology and fibrillin-1 distribution in severe early onset Marfan syndrome.

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Marfan syndrome (MFS) is an autosomal dominant condition which may involve the cardiovascular, ocular, skeletal, and other systems. Mutations causing MFS are found in the FBN1 gene, encoding fibrillin-1, an extracellular matrix protein involved in microfibril formation. In the most severe cases, mutations are generally found in exons 24-32, and children with these mutations usually die in the first years of life,...

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