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Natural variation in four human collagen genes across an ethnically diverse population.
Genomics - 1 Apr 2008
Chan Ting-Fung, Poon Annie, Basu Analabha, Addleman Nick R, Chen Justin, Phong Angie, Byers Peter H, Klein Teri E, Kwok Pui-Yan
Abstract excerpt
Collagens are members of one of the most important families of structural proteins in higher organisms. There are 28 types of collagens encoded by 43 genes in humans that fall into several different functional protein classes. Mutations in the major fibrillar collagen genes lead to osteogenesis imperfecta (COL1A1 and COL1A2 encoding the chains of Type I collagen), chondrodysplasias (COL2A1 encoding the chains of...
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