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Novel TGFBR2 and known missense SMAD3 mutations: two case reports of thoracic aortic aneurysms.
The Annals of thoracic surgery - 1 Jan 2015
Panesi Paola, Foffa Ilenia, Sabina Saverio, Ait Ali Lamia, Andreassi Maria Grazia
Abstract excerpt
We report the clinical presentation and genetic screening of 2 patients with thoracic aortic aneurysms. A novel TGFBR2 mutation in the 5'untranslated region (c.-59C>T) was identified in a 31-year-old man with a Stanford type A aortic dissection. Bioinformatics tools showed that c.-59C>T variant was predicted to affect exonic splicing enhancer, as validated by quantitative real-time RT-PCR, revealing a sixfold...
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