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Phenotypic and molecular heterogeneity in fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva.
Calcified tissue international - 1 Sept 1999
Virdi A S, Shore E M, Oreffo R O, Li M, Connor J M, Smith R, Kaplan F S, Triffitt J T
Abstract excerpt
Fibrodysplasia (myositis) ossificans progressiva (FOP) is an extremely rare inherited disorder in which progressive ossification of major striated muscles, often following injury, is associated with abnormal skeletal patterning. Altered expression of bone morphogenetic proteins may be a contributory cause. To examine this hypothesis, we compared the patterns of expression of bone morphogenetic proteins (BMPs)...
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