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Relationship between genotype and skeletal phenotype in children and adolescents with osteogenesis imperfecta.
Journal of bone and mineral research : the official journal of the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research - 1 Jun 2010
Rauch Frank, Lalic Liljana, Roughley Peter, Glorieux Francis H
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Osteogenesis imperfecta (OI) is a heritable bone fragility disorder that in the majority of cases is caused by mutations in COL1A1 or COL1A2, the genes that encode the two collagen type I alpha chains, alpha1(I) and alpha2(I). In this study, we examined the relationship between collagen type I mu...
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