1. What does community participation in the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) mean and how does that affect a homeowner? Communities (i.e., local governments) decide to participate in the NFIP, which enables property owners to purchase insurance protection against losses from flooding.
Print. Marfan syndrome in humans is caused by an abnormality of the connective tissue protein fibrillin. Patients are usually very tall and thin, with long spindly fingers, curvature of the spine, sometimes weakened arterial walls, and sometimes ocular problems, such as lens dislocation.rint. Marfan syndrome in humans is caused by an abnormality of the connective tissue protein fibrillin. Patients are usually very tall and thin, with long spindly fingers, curvature of the spine, sometimes weakened arterial walls, and sometimes ocular problems, such as lens dislocation.
It is widely believed that Marfan syndrome is a genetic disorder that is caused by a fibrillin mutation (specifically a fibrillin-1 mutation). But is it? Multiple studies confirm that the majority of people with Marfan syndrome have not been found to have any fibrillin-1 mutations.