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Interpretations of the genomic data and possible genotype\u2013phenotype correlations in FBN1 are complicated by the high rate of intronic variants of unknown significance. Here, we report two unrelated individuals with the FBN1 deep intronic variants c.6872-24T&gt;A and c.7571-12T&gt;A, clinically associated with MFS and MASS syndrome, respectively. The individual carrying the c.6872-24T&gt;A variant is positive for aortic disease. Both individuals lacked ectopia lentis. In silico analysis and subsequent mRNA study by RT-PCR demonstrated the effect of the identified variant on the splicing process in both cases. The c.6872-24T&gt;A and c.7571-12T&gt;A variants generate the retention of intronic nucleotides and lead to the introduction of a premature stop codon. 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