Familial craniofacial fibrous dysplasia: absence of linkage to<i>GNAS1</i> and the gene for cherubism

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Editor—Fibrous dysplasia is a benign fibro-osseous condition that may involve one or more bones in the cranial and extracranial skeleton. There are four main types of fibrous dysplasia: monostotic in which only one bone is affected1; polyostotic in which multiple bones are affected2; McCune-Albright syndrome (MIM 174800), a polyostotic form accompanied by pigmentation lesions and endocrine dysfunction presenting...

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