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The congenital bicuspid aortic valve (BAV) is considered a risk factor for the development of TAA because asymmetric blood flow through the bicuspid aortic valve detrimentally influences the wall of the ascending aorta. NOTCH1 mutations have been associated with non-syndromic TAAs as a consequence of BAV, but little is known regarding its haploinsufficiency and its relationship with connective tissue abnormalities. We report two cases in which there is clear evidence that alterations in the NOTCH1 gene are the cause of TAA in the absence of BAV. On the one hand, we describe a 117 Kb deletion that includes a large part of the NOTCH1 gene and no other coding genes, suggesting that haploinsufficiency can be considered a pathogenic mechanism for this gene associated with TAA. 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