Familial tumoral calcinosis and testicular microlithiasis associated with a new mutation of GALNT3 in a white family

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BACKGROUND: Familial tumoral calcinosis (FTC) is a rare autosomal recessive disease characterised by the development of multiple calcified masses in periarticular soft tissues; GALNT3 gene mutations have recently been described in an African American and in a Druse Arab family with FTC. OBJECTIVE: To report the clinical and histological features caused by a new GALNT3 mutation in a white family. RESULTS:...

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