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Fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva: clinical and genetic aspects.
Orphanet journal of rare diseases - 1 Dec 2011
Pignolo Robert J, Shore Eileen M, Kaplan Frederick S
Abstract excerpt
Fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva (FOP) is a severely disabling heritable disorder of connective tissue characterized by congenital malformations of the great toes and progressive heterotopic ossification that forms qualitatively normal bone in characteristic extraskeletal sites. The worldwide prevalence is approximately 1/2,000,000. There is no ethnic, racial, gender, or geographic predilection to FOP....
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