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Table 3 Adapted from Le Goff & Cormier-Daire (2008), Relevant Diseases Associated with THE ADAMTS(L) family

From: Systematic data-querying of large pediatric biorepository identifies novel Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome variant

Gene

Function

Disease

Phenotype

ADAMTS2

Procollagen N propeptidase

EDS VIIC

Fragile skin, joint laxity

ADAMTS10

Unknown

Weill-Marchesani syndrome (WMS)

Short stature and extremities

Thick skin

Joint limitation

Lens dislocation

ADAMTS17

Unknown

WMS-like syndrome 1

Short stature

Lens dislocation

ADAMTS13

Von Willebrand factor cleaving-protease

Thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura

Capilliaries and arterioles (heart, brain, kidney)

Thrombosis of short stature and extremeties

Joint limitation

Cardiac vascular disease

ADAMTSL4

Associated with regulating deposition of FBN1 into microfibrils

Ectopialentis

Lens dislocation

ADAMTSL2

Store/regulate latent TGFB in the extracellular matrix

EDS VIIC, Geleophysic dysplasia

Hypermobility, joint laxity

  1. Mutations in ADAMTS2 are associated EDS VIIC. A mutation in ADAMTSL2 has previously been associated with geleophysic dysplasia, whose phenotype includes joint limitation