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Skeletal phenotype of mandibuloacral dysplasia associated with mutations in ZMPSTE24.
Bone - 1 Sept 2010
Cunningham Vicki J, D'Apice Maria Rosaria, Licata Norma, Novelli Giuseppe, Cundy Tim
Abstract excerpt
Mandibuloacral dysplasia (MAD) is a rare recessively inherited premature aging disease characterized by skeletal and metabolic anomalies. It is part of the spectrum of diseases called laminopathies and results from mutations in genes regulating the synthesis of the nuclear laminar protein, lamin A. Homozygous or compound heterozygous mutations in the LMNA gene, which encodes both the precursor protein prelamin A...
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