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PARESIS OF A BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN-ANTAGONIST RESPONSE IN A GENETIC DISORDER OF HETEROTOPIC SKELETOGENESIS
1 Apr 2003
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BACKGROUND: Fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva is a rare genetic disorder characterized by congenital malformations of the great toes and by progressive heterotopic bone formation. Bone morphogenetic protein-4 (BMP-4) messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) and protein are uniquely overexpressed in lymphocytes and lesional cells from patients who have fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva. However, the BMP-4 gene is...
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