Exclusion of the alpha 2(I) and alpha 1(III) collagen genes as the mutant loci in a Marfan syndrome family.

Raymond Dalgleish, J. Ross Hawkins, M Keston

Journal of Medical Genetics · 1987 · 38 citations · 16 references

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The inheritance of restriction fragment length polymorphisms for two fibrillar collagen genes (COL1A2 and COL3A1) has been studied in a large Marfan syndrome kindred. We are able to show discordant segregation between the Marfan syndrome and each of the two collagen gene markers.

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