Heritable Disorders of Connective Tissue
Source: www.niams.nih.gov
Topic: Systemic Connective Tissue
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Sort Desciption: What Is Connective Tissue? How Do People Get Gene Alterations? Who Gets HDCTs? Does Anything Increase the Chances of Having a Genetic Disease? ...
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What Is Connective Tissue? 1
How Do People Get Gene Alterations? 4
Who Gets HDCTs? 5
Does Anything Increase the Chances of Having a Genetic Disease? 5
How Does Genetic Counseling Help? 6
What Are the Symptoms of a HDCT? 7
How Do Doctors Diagnose HDCTs? 8
What Treatments Are Available? 9
What Research Is Being Done on HDCTs? 9
Where Can People Find More Information about HDCTs? 14
Information Box Some Common Heritable Connective Tissue Disorders Heritable Disorders of Connective Tissue This fact sheet describes a family of more than 200 disorders that affect connective tissues. These disorders result from alterations (mutations) in genes responsible for building tis sues. ...
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