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Rare smooth muscle disorder traced to a single mutation in a non-coding gene

Using whole genome sequencing, researchers identified a single variant in a microRNA gene, MIR145-5p, as the source of multisystemic smooth muscle dysfunction syndrome, which had gone undiagnosed in a ...
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A Mass General team is the first to trace a rare smooth muscle disorder to a single mutation in a non-coding gene

BOSTON – A team of investigators from Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), a founding member of Mass General Brigham (MGB) and Mass General for Children (MGfC) has identified—for the first time—the ...