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An extra cysteine in one of the non-calcium-binding epidermal growth factor-like motifs of the FBN1 polypeptide is connected to a novel variant of Marfan syndrome.
The Journal of clinical investigation - 1 Aug 1994
Ståhl-Hallengren C, Ukkonen T, Kainulainen K, Kristofersson U, Saxne T, Tornqvist K, Peltonen L
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We present here a family with a clinical phenotype resembling Marfan syndrome (MFS), and displaying joint contracture and episodes of knee joint effusions, but lacking the cardiovascular features of the syndrome. The phenotype of this family represents a unique mixture of connective tissue symptoms, some of which are found in classical MFS and some of which are typical of dominant ectopia lentis. Linkage analyses...
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