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Mutation in a gene for type I procollagen (COL1A2) in a woman with postmenopausal osteoporosis: evidence for phenotypic and genotypic overlap with mild osteogenesis imperfecta.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 15 Jun 1991
Spotila L D, Constantinou C D, Sereda L, Ganguly A, Riggs B L, Prockop D J
Abstract excerpt
Mutations in the two genes for type I collagen (COL1A1 or COL1A2) cause osteogenesis imperfecta (OI), a heritable disease characterized by moderate to extreme brittleness of bone early in life. Here we show that a 52-year-old postmenopausal woman with severe osteopenia and a compression fracture of a thoracic vertebra had a mutation in the gene for the alpha 2(I) chain of type I collagen (COL1A2) similar to...
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