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Ehlers-Danlos syndrome type IV: a single base substitution of the last nucleotide of exon 34 in COL3A1 leads to exon skipping.
The Journal of investigative dermatology - 1 Sept 1995
Kuivaniemi H, Tromp G, Bergfeld W F, Kay M, Helm T N
Abstract excerpt
The Ehlers-Danlos syndrome has been classified into nine phenotypic presentations. Type IV is a variant of particular importance because people affected with this genodermatosis are at great risk of spontaneous hemorrhage from vascular rupture or bowel perforation. Recent molecular advances have identified mutations in the gene for type III procollagen as responsible for Ehlers-Danlos syndrome type IV. We report...
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