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    Arterial Tortuosity Syndrome: homozygosity for two novel and one recurrent SLC2A10missense mutations in three families with severe cardiopulmonary complications in infancy and a literature review

    Arterial Tortuosity Syndrome (ATS) is a very rare autosomal recessive connective tissue disorder (CTD) characterized by tortuosity and elongation of the large- and medium-sized arteries and a propensity for an...

    Marco Ritelli, Nicola Chiarelli, Chiara Dordoni, Elena Reffo in BMC Medical Genetics (2014)

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    Further delineation of Loeys-Dietz syndrome type 4 in a family with mild vascular involvement and a TGFB2 splicing mutation

    The Loeys-Dietz syndrome (LDS) is a rare autosomal dominant disorder characterized by thoracic aortic aneurysm and dissection and widespread systemic connective tissue involvement. LDS type 1 to 4 are caused b...

    Marco Ritelli, Nicola Chiarelli, Chiara Dordoni, Stefano Quinzani in BMC Medical Genetics (2014)

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    Recurrent exercise-induced acute renal failure in a young Pakistani man with severe renal hypouricemia and SLC2A9compound heterozygosity

    Familial renal hypouricemia (RHUC) is a hereditary disease characterized by hypouricemia, high renal fractional excretion of uric acid (FE-UA) and can be complicated by acute kidney failure and nephrolithiasis...

    Guido Jeannin, Nicola Chiarelli, Mario Gaggiotti, Marco Ritelli in BMC Medical Genetics (2014)