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Prenatal diagnosis of Marfan syndrome: identification of a fibrillin-1 mutation in chorionic villus sample.
Prenatal diagnosis - 1 Dec 1995
Rantamäki T, Raghunath M, Karttunen L, Lönnqvist L, Child A, Peltonen L
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Marfan syndrome (MFS) is one of the most common heritable connective tissue disorders and is caused by mutations in a gene coding for fibrillin-1. All but one of over 30 published mutations have been unique and specific prenatal diagnostics can only be provided to families with a previously estab...
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