[Molecular biological aspects of Marfan syndromes].

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Marfan syndrome (MFS) is a hereditary connective tissue disorder. Studies of MFS have established the critical contribution of fibrillin-1 deficiency to disease progression through altered cell-matrix interactions and dysregulated TGF-β signalling. It is now known that the disease is caused by altered regulation of TGF-β. As a result, the definition of MFS- and MFS-related diseases as the prototypical structural...

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