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Contact: Deborah Mann Lake
deborah.lake@uth.tmc.edu
713-500-3030
University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Caption: In families that have the ACTA2 gene defect, Milewicz and colleagues observed, a clinical presentation of affected members is livedo reticularis, a purplish rash.
Credit: Dianna Milewicz
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