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Genetic Diagnosis and the Severity of Cardiovascular Phenotype in Patients With Elastin Arteriopathy.
Circulation. Genomic and precision medicine - 1 Dec 2020
Min Sandar, Kinnear Caroline, D'Alessandro Lisa C A, Bouwmeester Jade, Yao Roderick, Chiasson David, Keeley Fred, Mital Seema
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Elastin insufficiency causes recurrent vascular stenoses. Hemizygous deletion of the elastin gene (ELN) causes Williams-Beuren syndrome (WBS), while single nucleotide variants in ELN cause nonsyndromic supravalvar aortic stenosis (SVAS). Our objective was to compare cardiovascular disease outcomes in patients with WBS and nonsyndromic SVAS. METHODS: Patients (81 WBS, 42 nonsyndromic SVAS) with...
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