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A deleterious founder mutation in the BMPER gene causes diaphanospondylodysostosis (DSD).
American journal of medical genetics. Part A - 1 Nov 2011
Ben-Neriah Ziva, Michaelson-Cohen Rachel, Inbar-Feigenberg Michal, Nadjari Michael, Zeligson Sharon, Shaag Avraham, Zenvirt Shamir, Elpeleg Orly, Levy-Lahad Ephrat
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Diaphonospondylodysostosis (DSD) is a rare, recessively inherited, lethal skeletal dysplasia, characterized by severe spinal ossification, segmentation defects, and renal cystic dysplasia with nephrogenic rests. We hereby present three affected individuals: two children and a fetus from two unrelated East Jerusalem Arab-Muslim families. Whereas most fetuses die in utero or perinatally, one of the children...
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