title: The 8th international research symposium on the Marfan syndrome and related conditions.
abstract: In the nearly quarter-century since the first international symposium on Marfan syndrome, enormous progress has been achieved in clinical, translational, and basic research. The 8th symposium, at the end of 2010, provides a useful summary of the current status of investigations, reveals why life-expectancy has improved so markedly during the past 30 years, and lays out a clear path for future endeavors, not only in Marfan syndrome, but in the expanding array of conditions related either through phenotype or pathogenesis.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine and Genetics, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. reed.pyeritz@uphs.upenn.edu
authors.forename: Reed E
authors.initials: RE
authors.lastname: Pyeritz
authors.forename: Bart
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Loeys
mesh_terms: D003226:Congresses as Topic; D006801:Humans; D008017:Life Expectancy; D008382:Marfan Syndrome / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000235:genetics* / Q000628:therapy; D010641:Phenotype