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Familial Paget's disease of bone: nonlinkage to the PDB1 and PDB2 loci on chromosomes 6p and 18q in a large pedigree.
Journal of bone and mineral research : the official journal of the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research - 1 Jan 2001
Good D, Busfield F, Duffy D, Lovelock P K, Kesting J B, Cameron D P, Shaw J T
Abstract excerpt
Paget's disease of bone is a common condition characterized by bone pain, deformity, pathological fracture, and an increased incidence of osteosarcoma. Genetic factors play a role in the pathogenesis of Paget's disease but the molecular basis remains largely unknown. Susceptibility loci for Paget's disease of bone have been mapped to chromosome 6p21.3 (PDB1) and 18q21.1-q22 (PDB2) in different pedigrees. We have...
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