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Thoracic aortic disease in two patients with juvenile polyposis syndrome and SMAD4 mutations.
American journal of medical genetics. Part A - 1 Jan 2013
Teekakirikul Polakit, Milewicz Dianna M, Miller David T, Lacro Ronald V, Regalado Ellen S, Rosales Ana Maria, Ryan Daniel P, Toler Tomi L, Lin Angela E
Abstract excerpt
Dilation or aneurysm of the ascending aorta can progress to acute aortic dissection (Thoracic Aortic Aneurysms and Aortic Dissections, TAAD). Mutations in genes encoding TGF-β-related proteins (TGFBR1, TGFBR2, FBN1, and SMAD3) cause syndromic and inherited TAAD. SMAD4 mutations are associated with juvenile polyposis syndrome (JPS) and a combined JPS-hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia (HHT) known as JPS-HHT. A...
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