Fibrous Dysplasia as a Stem Cell Disease

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At a time when significant attention is devoted worldwide to stem cells as a potential tool for curing incurable diseases, fibrous dysplasia of bone (FD) provides a paradigm for stem cell diseases. Consideration of the time and mechanism of the causative mutations and of nature of the pluripotent cells that mutate in early embryonic development indicates that, as a disease of the entire organism, FD can be seen...

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