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Segregation analysis of Scheuermann disease in ninety families from Siberia.
American journal of medical genetics - 15 May 2001
Axenovich T I, Zaidman A M, Zorkoltseva I V, Kalashnikova E V, Borodin P M
Abstract excerpt
Scheuermann disease [OMIM number 181440] is the most common cause of structural kyphosis in adolescence. Segregation analysis using a model with gender effects was applied to 90 pedigrees from Barnaul (West Siberia, Russia) ascertained through a proband with Scheuermann disease. The transmission probability model was used to detect major gene effect. A significant contribution of a major gene to the control of...
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