Article
[Gene diagnosis of X-linked spondyloepiphyseal dysplasia tarda by linkage analysis and DNA sequencing].
Zhonghua er ke za zhi = Chinese journal of pediatrics - 1 Apr 2003
Wang Huai-li, Gao Chao, Luo Qiang, Sheng Guang-yao, Zhou Jian-hua, Gao Tie-zheng, Peng Shao, Lu Jun-ping
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVE: X linked spondyloepiphyseal dysplasia tarda (SEDL) is heritable osteochondrondysplasia characterized in affected males by disproportional short stature with short neck and trunk resulting from a growth defect of the vertebral bodies, accompanied by barrel chest and degenerative osteoarthropathy of hip joints. This progressive skeletal dysplasia is caused by the SEDL gene located approximately 100 kb...
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