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. 2006 Mar 29;43(10):769–787. doi: 10.1136/jmg.2005.039669

Table 3 Type 1 fibrillinopathies.

Syndrome Clinical features Reference
MFS See text See text
Neonatal MFS Severe end of clinical spectrum Kainulainen et al,117 Booms et al129
Atypically severe MFS Severe and early onset cardiovascular complications Putnam et al,130 Tiecke et al,131
Ectopia lentis Mainly ocular findings Lönnqvist et al,132 Ades et al,133
Kyphoscoliosis Progressive kyphoscoliosis of variable severity Ades et al134
Familial arachnodactyly Dolichostenomelia and arachnodactyly Hayward et al135
Familial thoracic ascending aortic See text
aneurysms and dissections
MASS phenotype Mitral valve prolapse, aortic dilatation without dissection, Dietz et al136
skeletal and skin abnormalities
Shprintzen‐Goldberg syndrome Craniosynostosis, a marfanoid habitus, and skeletal, Sood et al,137 Kosaki et al138 Robinson et al139
neurological, cardiovascular, and connective tissue anomalies
Isolated skeletal features Tall stature, scoliosis, pectus excavatum, arachnodactyly Milewicz et al50
New variant of MFS Skeletal features of MFS, joint contractures, ectopia lentis, Ståhl‐Hallengren et al,140 Black et al,141
no cardiovascular manifestations
Weill‐Marchesani syndrome Short stature, brachydactyly, joint stiffness, and Faivre et al142
(autosomal dominant) characteristic eye abnormalities

Although classic MFS is by far the most common disorder associated with FBN1 mutations, several other disorders with overlapping clinical findings have been described due to mutations in FBN1.