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Expansile skeletal hyperphosphatasia is caused by a 15-base pair tandem duplication in TNFRSF11A encoding RANK and is allelic to familial expansile osteolysis.
Journal of bone and mineral research : the official journal of the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research - 1 Jan 2002
Whyte Michael P, Hughes Anne E
Abstract excerpt
Expansile skeletal hyperphosphatasia (ESH) is a singular disorder characterized in the year 2000 in a mother and daughter with early-onset deafness, premature loss of teeth, progressive hyperostotic widening of long bones causing painful phalanges in the hands, accelerated bone remodeling, and episodic hypercalcemia likely inherited as a highly penetrant, autosomal dominant trait. Absence of large osteolytic...
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