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Hungry!

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Marfan syndrome in humans is caused by an abnormality of the connective tissue protein fibrillin. Patients are usually very tall and thin, with long spindly fingers, curvature of the spine, sometimes weakened arterial walls, and sometimes ocular problems, such as lens dislocation. Which of the following would you conclude about Marfan syndrome from this information?
A) It is recessive.
B) It is dominant.
C) It has a late age of onset (> 60).
D) It is pleiotropic.
E) It is epistatic.


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Reply #1 on: Jun 20, 2013
Hi there,

The answer should be D.

Good luck! :D


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Reply #2 on: Aug 13, 2013
Thanks so much, you were right on.


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