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SUBMITTER: Brownstein AJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6136681 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Brownstein Adam J AJ Kostiuk Valentyna V Ziganshin Bulat A BA Zafar Mohammad A MA Kuivaniemi Helena H Body Simon C SC Bale Allen E AE Elefteriades John A JA
Aorta (Stamford, Conn.) 20180201 1
Thoracic aortic aneurysms, with an estimated prevalence in the general population of 1%, are potentially lethal, via rupture or dissection. Over the prior two decades, there has been an exponential increase in our understanding of the genetics of thoracic aortic aneurysm and/or dissection (TAAD). To date, 30 genes have been shown to be associated with the development of TAAD and ∼30% of individuals with nonsyndromic familial TAAD have a pathogenic mutation in one of these genes. This review repr ...[more]