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ACVR1 gene mutations in four Turkish patients diagnosed as fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva.
Gene - 25 Feb 2013
Eresen Yazıcıoğlu Ciğdem, Karatosun Vasfi, Kızıldağ Sefa, Ozsoylu Dua, Kavukçu Salih
Abstract excerpt
Fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva (FOP) is a rare genetic disease characterized with congenital malformations of the great toes and progressive heterotopic ossifications in the skeletal muscles and soft tissue. FOP has been associated with a specific point mutation on the ACVR1 (Activin A receptor type I) gene. Four sporadic cases clinically diagnosed as FOP have been included in this study for mutational...
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