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The Role of EXT1 in Nonhereditary Osteochondroma: Identification of Homozygous Deletions
6 Mar 2007
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Multiple osteochondromas is a hereditary syndrome that is characterized by the formation of cartilage-capped bony neoplasms (osteochondromas), for which exostosis (multiple)-1 (EXT1) has been identified as a causative gene. However, 85% of all osteochondromas present as solitary (nonhereditary) lesions in which somatic mutations in EXT1 are extremely rare, but loss of heterozygosity and clonal...
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