MASS syndrome
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mass-syndrome-244-4808912
title:
MASS syndrome
text:
MASS syndrome is a medical disorder of the connective tissue similar to Marfan syndrome.
MASS stands for mitral valve prolapse, aortic root diameter at upper limits of normal for body size, stretch marks of the skin, and skeletal conditions similar to Marfan syndrome. It is caused by a mutation in the FBN1 gene, which encodes fibrillin-1. Fibrillin-1 is an extracellular matrix protein that is found in microfibrils; defects in the fibrillin-1 protein cause the malfunctioning of microfibrils, whic
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Medical condition
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MASS_syndrome
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2023-08-18T08:19:20Z
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