The dermatosparaxis type is caused by mutations in the ADAMTS2 gene. The other, less well-characterized forms of Ehlers-Danlos syndrome result from mutations in other genes, some of which have not been identified.
Next (Metaphysics) Metanarrative or grand narrative or mater narrative is a term developed by Jean-FranÃ§ois Lyotard to mean a theory that tries to give a totalizing, comprehensive account to various historical events, experiences, and social, cultural phenomena based upon the appeal to universal truth or universal values.
Pejorative suffix. A pejorative suffix is a suffix that attaches a negative meaning to the word or word-stem preceding it. There is frequent overlap between this and the diminutive form. The pejorative suffix may add the sense of a despicable example of the preceding, as in Spanish -ejo (see below). It can also convey the sense of a despicable human having the preceding characteristic; for instance, as in English -el (see below) or the development of the word cuckold from Old French cocu cuckoo + -ald, taken into Anglo-Saxon as cokewald and thus to the modern English word.