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Disruption of FBN1 by an Alu element insertion: A novel genetic cause of Marfan syndrome.
European journal of medical genetics - 1 Jul 2023
Helm Benjamin M, Smith Amanda M, Schmit Kelly, Landis Benjamin J, Vatta Matteo, Ware Stephanie M
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Alu elements are retrotransposons with ubiquitous presence in the human genome that have contributed to human genomic diversity and health. These approximately 300-bp sequences can cause or mediate disease by disrupting coding/splicing regions in the germline, by insertional mutagenesis in somatic cells, and in promoting formation of copy-number variants. Alu elements may also disrupt epigenetic regulation by...
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