Correspondence to Vorselaars et al. thoracic aorta dilation in patients with hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia due to SMAD4 gene mutation

Am J Med Genet A. 2016 Mar;170(3):813. doi: 10.1002/ajmg.a.37475. Epub 2015 Nov 17.

Authors

Brandie Heald^{1

2}, Christina Rigelsky¹, Rocio Moran¹, Lisa LaGuardia^{2

3}, Margaret O'Malley^{2

3}, Carol A Burke^{2

3}, Kenneth Zahka^{4

5}

Affiliations

¹ Genomic Medicine Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio.
² Sanford R Weiss Center for Hereditary Colorectal Cancer Neoplasia, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio.
³ Digestive Disease Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio.
⁴ Pediatric Cardiology, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio.
⁵ Heart and Vascular Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio.

PMID: 26573265
DOI: 10.1002/ajmg.a.37475

No abstract available

Publication types

Letter
Comment

MeSH terms

Aorta, Thoracic / pathology*
Aortic Diseases / complications*
Female
Humans
Intestinal Polyposis / complications*
Male
Smad4 Protein / physiology*
Telangiectasia, Hereditary Hemorrhagic / complications*

Substances

Smad4 Protein