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[Genetic basis for skeletal disease. Osteogenesis imperfecta and genetic abnormalities].
Clinical calcium - 1 Aug 2010
Hasegawa Kosei
Abstract excerpt
Patients with osteogenesis imperfecta (OI) represent various degrees of bone fragility and accompany many clinical manifestations such as dentinogenesis imperfecta, blue sclera, growth disturbance, hearing impairment and so on. Although most OI is caused by genetic mutation of type I collagen gene ; COL1A1 and COL1A2, other genes that concerns post-translational modification of type I collagen molecules such as...
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