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Deficits in Col5a2 Expression Result in Novel Skin and Adipose Abnormalities and Predisposition to Aortic Aneurysms and Dissections.
The American journal of pathology - 1 Oct 2017
Park Arick C, Phan Noel, Massoudi Dawiyat, Liu Zhenjie, Kernien John F, Adams Sheila M, Davidson Jeffrey M, Birk David E, Liu Bo, Greenspan Daniel S
Abstract excerpt
Classic Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (cEDS) is characterized by fragile, hyperextensible skin and hypermobile joints. cEDS can be caused by heterozygosity for missense mutations in genes COL5A2 and COL5A1, which encode the α2(V) and α1(V) chains, respectively, of collagen V, and is most often caused by COL5A1 null alleles. However, COL5A2 null alleles have yet to be associated with cEDS or other human pathologies. We...
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