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Fibrillin abnormalities and prognosis in Marfan syndrome and related disorders.
American journal of medical genetics - 28 Aug 1995
Aoyama T, Francke U, Gasner C, Furthmayr H
Abstract excerpt
Marfan syndrome (MFS), a multisystem autosomal-dominant disorder, is characterized by mutations of the fibrillin-1 (FBN1) gene and by abnormal patterns of synthesis, secretion, and matrix deposition of the fibrillin protein. To determine the sensitivity and specificity of fibrillin protein abnormalities in the diagnosis of MFS, we studied dermal fibroblasts from 57 patients with classical MFS, 15 with equivocal...
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