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Preferred Label : Marfan syndrome;

Symbol : MFS;

CISMeF acronym : MFS; MFS1;

Type : Phenotype, molecular basis known;

Alternative titles and symbols : Marfan syndrome, type I; MFS1;

Description : A heritable disorder of fibrous connective tissue, Marfan syndrome shows striking pleiotropism and clinical variability. The cardinal features occur in 3 systems--skeletal, ocular, and cardiovascular (McKusick, 1972; Pyeritz and McKusick, 1979; Pyeritz, 1993). It shares overlapping features with congenital contractural arachnodactyly (121050), which is caused by mutation in the FBN2 gene (612570). Gray and Davies (1996) gave a general review. They published Kaplan-Meier survival curves for a cohort of British Marfan syndrome patients demonstrating greater survivorship in females than in males; a similar result had been reported by Murdoch et al. (1972) and by Silverman et al. (1995). Gray and Davies (1996) also proposed a grading scale for clinical comparison of the Marfan syndrome patients. The authors provided criteria for each grade and suggested uniform use of these scales may facilitate clinicomolecular correlations.;

Inheritance : Autosomal dominant;

Molecular basis : Caused by mutation in the fibrillin 1 gene (FBN1, 134797.0001);

Laboratory abnormalities : Decreased fibrillin-1 immunostaining in the dermis;

Prefixed ID : #154700;

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