Electron microscopic findings in skin biopsies from patients with infantile osteopetrosis and neuronal storage disease.

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Infantile osteopetrosis with neuronal storage disease is a rare lysosomal storage disorder. It is an autosomal recessive disease that is associated with mutations in the OSTM1 and chloride channel ClCN-7genes. So far mutations in the OSTM1 gene have been identified in only 8 patients. To date, the clinical and morphological features of nine patients with infantile osteopetrosis with neuronal storage have been...

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