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Marfan Syndrome
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Also known as: connective tissue disorder · Marfan disease · hereditary connective tissue weakness · arachnodactyly · Marfan · Marfan syndrome heart · hypermobility · long fingers · spider fingers
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Marfan syndrome alters the connective tissue — the material that holds your entire body together. Joints, eyes, heart, vessels, skeleton: everything that provides structure and support is affected. Medicine describes it as a genetic defect in the FBN1 gene, a mutation that weakens the scaffolding of your body. Long, slender limbs, hypermobile joints, an aorta that widens — the body seems to grow outward, as though it wanted to leave itself behind.
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