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Double mutant fibrillin-1 (FBN1) allele in a patient with neonatal Marfan syndrome.
Journal of medical genetics - 1 Sept 1996
Wang M, Kishnani P, Decker-Phillips M, Kahler S G, Chen Y T, Godfrey M
Abstract excerpt
It is now well established that defects in fibrillin-1 (FBN1) cause the variable and pleiotropic features of Marfan syndrome (MFS) and, at the most severe end of its clinical spectrum, neonatal Marfan syndrome (nMFS). Patients with nMFS have mitral and tricuspid valve involvement and aortic root dilatation, and die of congestive heart failure, often in the first year of life. Although mutations in classical MFS...
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