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Three novel mutations of the PHEX gene in three Chinese families with X-linked dominant hypophosphatemic rickets.
Calcified tissue international - 1 Dec 2007
Xia Weibo, Meng Xunwu, Jiang Yan, Li Mei, Xing Xiaoping, Pang Li, Wang Ou, Pei Yu, Yu Li-Yun, Sun Yue, Hu Yingying, Zhou Xueying
Abstract excerpt
X-linked dominant hypophosphatemia (XLH, OMIM307800), the most prevalent form of inherited rickets in humans, is a dominant disorder of phosphate homeostasis characterized by growth retardation, rachitic and osteomalacic bone disease, hypophosphatemia, and renal phosphate wasting. The gene responsible for XLH was identified by positional cloning and designated PHEX (formerly PEX) to depict a phosphate-regulating...
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