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Marfan Syndrome(MFS)
Symptoms, Genotype, and Phenotype
Fibrilin
People with MFS are gonna be tall, thin, long legs, arms, fingers, and toes. Flat feet, crowded teeth, chest sinks or sticks out, and spine curves to one side.
Fibrilin is the protein that plays a major role in MFS.
Flo Hyman (A famous volleyball player who was in the Olympics.)
It's genotype is FBN1.
Famous people who had MFS
Fibrilin controls the connective tissue in your body. People with MFS have a bunch of Fibrilin in them, that's why they are really lanky.
It's phenotype is 124-300.
Can MFS be treated or controlled?
MFS has no cure.
Doctors can give people with MFS medicines, treatments, or surgery to prevent complications from happening.
Vincent Schiavelli (He was an actor in "One flew over the cuckoos nest"
More History
People Should Know this
Antoine Marfan discovered unusual things in a 5 year old girl, in 1896, who was really tall and lanky, and found out that she had a genetic disorder. 20 years later doctors continued his work.
People should know that people with MFS are not just gonna be tall and lanky they will also have heart, eye, and back problems. Also If a women with MFS is pregnant her baby will still be healthy, it might just give her heart stress.
Conclusion
MFS is found on the X chromosome.
The Basics on MFS
DNA Analysis
Genes detected for this disorder is through DNA Analysis, because it's inherited into families.
MFS is a genetic disorder that makes your connective tissue abnormal.
We are lucky that 1 in 5000 people have MFS, I don't think it would be fun to have. Most of the famous people who had MFS died at an early age. We just need to thank the Scientists, Doctors, and researchers continuing to find medicines, and treatments to help people with MFS.
It is inherited in the family, it
doesn't randomly occupy a
person(it's all in the genetics and
DNA.)
Historical Info
Long arms, long fingers, and inverted chest.
The founder of MFS was a French Pediatrition named, Antoine Marfan.
This disorder originated as a mutation or change.
Some people believe that Abraham Lincoln
might have had MFS due to his lanky body.