Genetic Linkage of the Marfan Syndrome, Ectopia Lentis, and Congenital Contractural Arachnodactyly t...
Genetic Linkage of the Marfan Syndrome, Ectopia Lentis, and Congenital Contractural Arachnodactyly to the Fibrillin Genes on Chromosomes 15 and 5
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Tsipouras, Petros , Del Mastro, Richard , Sarfarazi, Mansoor , Lee, Brendan , Vitale, Emilia , Child, Anne H , Godfrey, Maurice , Devereux, Richard B , Hewett, Duncan , Steinmann, Beat , Viljoen, Denis , Sykes, Bryan C , Kilpatrick, Michael , Ramirez, Francesco and the International Marfan Syndrome Collaborative Study
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Boston: Massachusetts Medical Society
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THE Marfan syndrome is a common genetic disorder of connective tissue, with characteristic manifestations in the musculoskeletal, cardiovascular, and ocular systems.
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Recently, two independent studies
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linked the syndrome to a fibrillin gene localized on chromosome 15.
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This finding agreed with those of previous immun...
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Genetic Linkage of the Marfan Syndrome, Ectopia Lentis, and Congenital Contractural Arachnodactyly to the Fibrillin Genes on Chromosomes 15 and 5
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TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_16249677
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_16249677
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0028-4793
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1533-4406
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10.1056/NEJM199204023261401
