Introduction: The purpose of my research paper was to find information about a tissue disorder. The tissue disorder I chose was Marfan syndrome. A brief overview: Marfan syndrome is named after Antoine Marfan. He was a French pediatrician who first described the condition in 1896. Marfan syndrome, also known as connective tissue disorder, is an inherited tissue disorder. It is the lack of flow of the protein fibrillin. (code fibrillin-1) Marfan affects the connective tissue of the heart, blood vessels, eyes, bones, lungs and covering the spinal cord. There are so many parts affected in the body due to Marfan syndrome, due to this it can cause many complications which can be life-threatening. What was known/believed about it in the past: Named after Antonie Marfan. A French pediatrician. He first described the condition in 1896, after noticing striking features in a five-year-old girl. The gene linked to the disease was first identified by Francesco Ramirez in 1991. What causes it: Marfan syndrome is a genetic disease. So it can be approved...