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Fatal thoracic aortic aneurysm and dissection in a large family with a novel MYLK gene mutation: delineation of the clinical phenotype

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Published Online: 2018-03-15

Published Print: 2018-12

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Shalata, Adel http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5209-2072
Mahroom, Mohammad

Milewicz, Dianna M.

Limin, Gong

Kassum, Fadi

Badarna, Khader

Tarabeih, Nader

Assy, Nimmer

Fell, Rona

Cohen, Hector

Nashashibi, Munir

Livoff, Alejandro

Azab, Muhammad

Habib, George

Geiger, Dan

Weissbrod, Omer

Nseir, William
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Article History

Received: 26 September 2017

Accepted: 23 January 2018

First Online: 15 March 2018

Ethics approval and consent to participate

: This study follows the Helsinki Declaration’s principles and was carried out from routine diagnostic activity. Institutional Review Board (IRB) approval was obtained for the genetic evaluation. Furthermore, written consent was provided from all study participants.

: We obtained consent for publication from all study participants. Moreover, we obtained consent to publish Computerized Tomography angiography- CTA panels from patient VI-26 (Figure-2).

: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.

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