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Three-generation family with novel contiguous gene deletion on chromosome 2p22 associated with thoracic aortic aneurysm syndrome.
American journal of medical genetics. Part A - 1 Mar 2018
Quiñones-Pérez Bianca, VanNoy Grace E, Towne Meghan C, Shen Yiping, Singh Michael N, Agrawal Pankaj B, Smith Sharon E
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Latent transforming growth factor binding proteins (LTBP) are a family of extracellular matrix glycoproteins that play an important role in the regulation of transforming growth factor beta (TGF-ß) activation. Dysregulation of the TGF-ß pathway has been implicated in the pathogenesis of inherited disorders predisposing to thoracic aortic aneurysms syndromes (TAAS) including Marfan syndrome (MFS; FBN1) and...
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