Ehlers Danlos Syndrome stretching disorder of connective tissue. A Sufferer & patient Gary Stretch working at the Circus of Horrors, STOCKTON, UK Stock Photo Alamy The Ehlers Danlos syndromes (EDS) are a group of heritable connective tissue disorders that vary in the ways they affect the body and in their genetic causes. Variants in the genes Ehlers Danlos Syndrome: Background, Pathophysiology, Etiology Biological insights in the pathogenesis of hypermobile Ehlers Danlos syndrome from proteome profiling of patients' dermal myofibroblasts ScienceDirect