Article
Clinical and molecular characterization of patients with hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia: Experience from an HHT Center of Excellence.
American journal of medical genetics. Part A - 1 Jul 2021
Latif Muhammad A, Sobreira Nara Lygia D, Guthrie Kelsey S, Motaghi Mina, Robinson Gina M, Shafaat Omid, Gong Anna J, Weiss Clifford R
Abstract excerpt
In this retrospective single-center study, we evaluated whether/how pathogenic/likely pathogenic variants of three hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia (HHT)-associated genes (ENG, ACVRL1, and SMAD4) are associated with specific clinical presentations of HHT. We also characterized the morphological features of pulmonary arteriovenous malformations (AVMs) in patients with these variants. Pathogenic or likely...
Topics
- Activin Receptors, Type II
- Adult
- Arteriovenous Fistula
- Endoglin
- Female
- Genetic Predisposition to Disease
- Growth Differentiation Factor 2
- Humans
- Male
- Mutation
