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Fibrillin
is a protein that is part of
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connective
tissue. Mutations in it
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are
associated with Marfan
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Syndrome
(long limbs, crowned
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teeth
elastic joints, heart problems
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and
spinal column deformities.
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The
protein is 3500 aa, and the
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gene
is 110 kb long made up of 65
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introns.
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Titin
has 175 introns.
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With
these large complex genes it
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is
difficult to identify all of the
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exons
and introns.
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