In a sub-study of the COMPARE trial examining the effect of losartan upon on-going aortic root dilation in patients with Marfan syndrome, the drug was more effective in slowing progression in patients with haploinsufficient variants than in those with protein mutational variants, implying that Fbn-1's role in modifying TGF-β1 is an important mechanism of aortic root dilation (Franken et al., 2017). The gene discussed is FBN1; the disease is Marfan syndrome.