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Exome Sequencing Identifies Candidate Genetic Modifiers of Syndromic and Familial Thoracic Aortic Aneurysm Severity.
Journal of cardiovascular translational research - 1 Aug 2017
Landis Benjamin J, Schubert Jeffrey A, Lai Dongbing, Jegga Anil G, Shikany Amy R, Foroud Tatiana, Ware Stephanie M, Hinton Robert B
Abstract excerpt
Thoracic aortic aneurysm (TAA) is a genetic disease predisposing to aortic dissection. It is important to identify the genetic modifiers controlling penetrance and expressivity to improve clinical prognostication. Exome sequencing was performed in 27 subjects with syndromic or familial TAA presenting with extreme phenotypes (15 with severe TAA; 12 with mild or absent TAA). Family-based analysis of a subset of the...
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