Article
Characterization of a large deletion associated with a polymorphic block of repeated dinucleotides in the type III procollagen gene (COL3A1) of a patient with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome type IV.
American journal of human genetics - 1 Mar 1991
Lee B, D'Alessio M, Vissing H, Ramirez F, Steinmann B, Superti-Furga A
Abstract excerpt
Ehlers-Danlos syndrome type IV (EDS IV) is an autosomal dominant condition characterized by extreme fragility of skin, blood vessels, intestine, gravid uterus, and lungs. The phenotype is accounted for by mutations affecting the integrity and/or synthesis of the precursor procollagen molecules of type III collagen. In this article, we report the elucidation of the molecular defect in an EDS IV patient whose type...
Topics
- Alleles
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Base Sequence
- Cells, Cultured
- Chromosome Deletion
- Collagen
- DNA
- Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome
- Exons
- Gene Frequency
- Humans
