COL5A1 and COL5A2 gene test report (classical EDS)

more than 90% of the patients

tests per year, worldwide, once, to confirm a clinical diagnosis

“Molecular analysis of COL5A1 and COL5A2 genes identifies a causal mutation in more than 90% of the patients and should be used as the standard confirmatory test”

Ehlers-Danlos Society, 2017 International Classification of the Ehlers-Danlos Syndromes (slide set, 15 March 2017), 2017-03

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Clinical guideline
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2026-11-06
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A one-off genetic test confirming classical EDS; the figure is the share of patients in whom it finds a causal variant.

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Kept as evidence; no figure on the platform is computed from it yet.